"I do not know if the people of the United States are better than the people of other countries; but I know that they are more virtuous."

"The Americans are a people who are always seeking happiness, but they are also a people who are never satisfied."

"I have no doubt that the American people will in the end overcome all the difficulties that they have to encounter."

"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."

"The most important of all the advantages which democracy procures is not, as has been sometimes supposed, the good of all, but the greatest possible good of the greatest number."