Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number… — 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
