The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.
Alexis de TocquevilleAll revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.
Alexis de TocquevilleOf all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
Alexis de Tocqueville