Alexis de Tocqueville — "I have encountered passionate materialists whose closing of the eyes to faith wa…"

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

"The taste for physical gratifications is everywhere on the increase; and it is a taste which, if it be not checked, will infallibly lead men to the most abject servitude."

"The American Indians are, in a certain sense, a foreign people, and they have no place in the midst of the European population."

"The French want equality in liberty, and if they can't have that, they'll take equality in slavery."

"It is difficult to imagine how many of those who love liberty, and who sincerely desire it, are yet ready to give it up at the first alarm."