Alexis de Tocqueville — "The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error."

"The greatest danger that threatens modern nations is the indifference of the majority to the public interest."

"I do not know whether the Americans have a good or a bad government; but I know that they have a very strong government."

"It is difficult to make a people who have been accustomed to live under a despotic government, understand the advantages of liberty."

"The love of wealth is the principal source of all the great actions of the Americans."

"I am convinced that a great revolution is at hand, and that it will be more terrible than any that has yet occurred."