Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. — 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
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — 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
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political… — 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
