Alexis de Tocqueville — "The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that error itself is harmless."

"It is not the facility of the elections which makes the American government democratic, but the character of the people."

"I have often observed that in democratic countries the people are more afraid of their own liberty than of the tyranny of a master."

"The Americans are a people who are always in a hurry, and they have no time for anything that does not bring them immediate profit."

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

"The American Indians are, in a certain sense, a foreign people, and they have no place in the midst of the European population."