The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become...

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward...

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will...

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

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

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step...