"The American is a man who is always in a hurry, always running, always trying to get ahead."

"The most important of all political questions is the question of property."

"The Americans are a people who are always talking about liberty, but they are also a people who are always ready to give it up."

"I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world."

"The American democracy is a very imperfect democracy, but it is the best that the world has ever seen."