"The Americans are a people who are always talking about progress, but they are also a people who are always looking back."

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

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

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

"I have always thought that the most important thing for a man is to be free, even if he is poor."