The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most crit… - Alexis de Tocqueville

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.