everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

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

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

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