The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

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.

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

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