“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach... — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“ Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
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