"The American is a man who is always in a hurry, always running, always trying to get ahead."

"I am convinced that a great revolution is at hand, and that it will be more terrible than any that has yet occurred."

"The greatest danger that threatens modern nations is the indifference of the majority to the public interest."

"I do not believe that the American people are capable of governing themselves without the aid of religion."

"The American Indians are, in a certain sense, a foreign people, and they have no place in the midst of the European population."