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

I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.

I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, to show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with fresh pertinacity to convince me; I preserve a dogged silence, and he thinks I am meditating deeply on the truths which he is uttering; at last I rush from his company, and he supposes that some urgent business hurries me elsewhere. This man will never understand that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life.

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

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one