“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country”

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”

“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”

“In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.”

“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”

“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”