"The American is a man who is always trying to improve himself, and he is never satisfied with what he has."

"I think that the most important thing for a nation is to have a good government, even if it is a despotic one."

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

"Americans are so enamored of equality they'd rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

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