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

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.