"I do not know whether the Americans have a good or a bad government; but I know that they have a very strong government."

"I have encountered passionate materialists whose closing of the eyes to faith was as fanatical as religious zeal."

"I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world."

"The Americans have a great taste for physical gratifications. They are always seeking to procure them, and they are never satisfied."

"I have always regarded the Americans as a people who are more interested in their own private affairs than in the public good."