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.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.