Alexis de Tocqueville — "I have often seen that men are more afraid of death than of slavery."

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

"The Americans are a people who are always in a hurry, and they have no time for anything that does not bring them immediate profit."

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

"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."

"Equality, in a free government, must be established by law; but it must also be established by manners."