 In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. |
| 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 warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. |
| The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. |
| The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. |
| There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. |
| Life is to entered upon with courage. |
| He was as great as a man can be without morality. |
| 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. |
| The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. |
| The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. |
| The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. |
| Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. |
| No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. |
| We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. |
| The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. |
| I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. |
| 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 doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. |
