Doe Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[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

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence…

— Alexis de Tocqueville