The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

The real cause, the effective one, that makes men lose power is that they have become unworthy to exercise it.

Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.