Alexis de Tocqueville — "The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully develo…"

"The American is a man who is always in a hurry, always running, always trying to get ahead."

"The American has no past; he has only the present and the future. He lives in a perpetual state of creation; he is forever building, forever destroying, forever renewing."

"The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory."

"I have always thought that there was something more dangerous than despotism, and that was servitude voluntarily endured."

"I have encountered passionate materialists whose closing of the eyes to faith was as fanatical as religious zeal."