I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — 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
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
