What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to mainta…

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the mov…

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the …

I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're …

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist und…