I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.