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The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common...more

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The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

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Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

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

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Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed ...more

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The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits of mind. As ...more