"I know of no country in which the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and in which the passion for physical gratification is more general than in America."

"The love of wealth is the principal source of all the great actions of the Americans."

"The American has no past; he has only the present and the future. He lives in a perpetual state of creation; he is forever building, forever destroying, forever renewing."

"The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully developed, will lead to a species of legal despotism."

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