Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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 bring in?

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

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.