When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.