"The Americans are a people who are always looking for a new way to do things, and they are very good at finding it."

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

"When I examine the state of Europe, I am forced to admit that there is no nation which does not carry within itself the seeds of its own destruction."

"The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully developed, will lead to a species of legal despotism."

"The greatest danger that threatens democracy is the abuse of liberty."