"I do not know if the people of the United States are better off, but I am sure that they are happier than the people of Europe."

"It is difficult to imagine how many of those who love liberty, and who sincerely desire it, are yet ready to give it up at the first alarm."

"Despotism often presents itself as the defender of the oppressed, and the friend of the humble. It can even be useful to them, but it is always at the price of their liberty."

"The most important of all the advantages which democracy procures is not, as has been sometimes supposed, the good of all, but the greatest possible good of the greatest number."

"In the United States, the majority raises formidable barriers around thought."