Alexis de Tocqueville — "The American people are a people of contradictions. They are at once very religi…"

"The greatest danger that threatens democracy is the abuse of liberty."

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

"The Negroes who inhabit the United States, are in some measure strangers to the country which gave them birth; they are the children of slavery, and not of society. Therefore, they have no place among…"

"I have often seen that men are more afraid of death than of slavery."

"Slavery, which is so cruel to the slave, is prejudicial to the master, and democracy, which is so favorable to the freedom of all citizens, is destructive of the independence of the individual."