"I do not think that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. But I believe that they will remain in a state of hostility, unless they are separated."

"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."

"The Americans are a people who are always complaining, but they are also a people who are always working."

"I have no doubt that the American people will in the end overcome all the difficulties that they have to encounter."

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