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
“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest… — 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
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
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. — 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
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
