The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.