Alexis de Tocqueville — "I have always believed that the most dangerous thing for a society is to have to…"

"I do not think that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. But I believe that they will remain in a state of hostility, unless they are separated."

"I am convinced that a great revolution is at hand, and that it will be more terrible than any that has yet occurred."

"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."

"The American people are a people who are very fond of comfort, and they are not always very fond of liberty."

"The American woman is as free as the American man, and she is at least as intelligent."