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

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions