"The Americans are a very religious people, but their religion is very different from ours."

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

"I have often observed that in democratic countries the people are more afraid of their own liberty than of the tyranny of a master."

"The Americans have a democratic constitution which they have not been prevented from creating, but which they have not been able to prevent from being democratic."

"Slavery, which is so cruel to the slave, is prejudicial to the master, and democracy, which is so favorable to the freedom of all citizens, is destructive of the independence of the individual."