"There is no country in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a
substitute for common sense and public morality."

"The characterisitics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of his readers; he
abandons principles to assail the characters of individuals, to track them into private life and disclose all their
weaknesses and vices."

"The personal opinions of the editors have no weight in the eyes of the public. What they seek in a newspaper is a
knowledge of facts, and it is only be altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of
his own views."

"The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it
frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself
incompetent to conduct his own."

"Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing. Human beings are not competent to exercise it with
discretion. God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power. There is
no power on earth so worthy of honor in itself or clothed with rights so sacred that I would admit its uncontrolled and
all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on any power
whatever, be it called a people or a king, an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I say there is the
germ of tyranny, and I seek to live elsewhere, under different laws."

"Hence the concentration of power and the subjection of individuals will increase among democratic nations, not only
in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance."

"It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a
different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them."

"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their
gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild. It would be
like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the
contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided that they
think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole
agent and final arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities,
facilitates their pleasures, manages their principled concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property,
and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of
living?"

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will,
the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of
small and complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic