Alexis de Tocqueville — "I confess that I am not much in love with what is called 'progress' in our days."

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

"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."

"I have often thought that the most difficult thing for a man to do is to know himself."

"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."

"The man who is most likely to succeed in life is the man who is always willing to take a chance."