Quotes Alexis de Tocqueville

A democratic government is the only one in which those who v...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic ...

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to b...

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather...

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his tal...

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americ...

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you w...

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word,...

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and ...

He was as great as a man can be without morality....

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few orig...

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they ...

I know of no country in which there is so little independenc...

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to i...

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around th...

In no other country in the world is the love of property kee...

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in w...

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of fr...

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a mu...

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which g...

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality...

Life is to entered upon with courage....

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a demo...

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward...

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress dis...