Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.