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 greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.
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