In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.