What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is… — 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
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
A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable… — 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
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents,… — 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
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — 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
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
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — 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… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws… — 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
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — 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… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists.… — 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
Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact… — 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 Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[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 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… — 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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