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

"The American people are a people who are very fond of comfort, and they are not always very fond of liberty."

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

"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 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."

"In the United States, the majority raises formidable barriers around thought."