To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.