When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. - Alexis de Tocqueville

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.