I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.