Alexis de Tocqueville — "I am convinced that the greatest danger for a democratic nation is not anarchy, …"

"It is difficult to make a people who have been accustomed to live under a despotic government, understand the advantages of liberty."

"The love of wealth is the principal source of all the great actions of the Americans."

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

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

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