We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

They must have the defects of their qualities.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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.

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.