In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1
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 most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.
Egotism fears its own self.
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.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which...
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their inte...
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it...
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom it is the same pitiless feeling which here, as everywhere else, animates the Euro...