As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. — 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
A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man. — 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
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. — 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
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and… — 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
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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 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… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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 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
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — 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
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
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — 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
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
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
To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends. — 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
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — 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
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the… — 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
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