Of all thy blessings reckon wealth the least, For 'tis the least secure of our possessions. - Alexis de Tocqueville

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.