Alexis de Tocqueville

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

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

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

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

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