As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.