Alexis de Tocqueville — "I have always believed that the love of truth is the most powerful of all passio…"

"I am not a democrat, but I have a profound sympathy for democracy."

"I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people."

"The American democracy is a very imperfect democracy, but it is the best that the world has ever seen."

"I know of no country in which the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and in which the passion for physical gratification is more general than in America."

"I am not a man of systems, and I have no desire to be one."