They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard. - Alexis de Tocqueville

This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Our life is like to dice, which ever fall
In varying combinations; no one form
Has man's existence, but 'tis full of change.