Alexis de Tocqueville — "The Americans are a people who are always complaining, but they are also a peopl…"

"I know of no country in which the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and in which the passion for physical gratification is more general than in America."

"The love of equality is sometimes a passion, sometimes a reasonable preference."

"I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have …"

"The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully developed, will lead to a species of legal despotism."

"I am not a democrat, but I have a profound sympathy for democracy."