We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his countr… - Alexis de Tocqueville

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

Men sometimes submit to shame, to tyranny, to conquest, but they never long suffer anarchy. There is no people so barbarous that they escape this general law of humanity

The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he is become their equal;