By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

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

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.