"I am convinced that the greatest evil in the world is not poverty, but inequality."

"The man who is most likely to succeed in life is the man who is always willing to take a chance."

"I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have …"

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

"The Negroes who inhabit the United States, are in some measure strangers to the country which gave them birth; they are the children of slavery, and not of society. Therefore, they have no place among…"