Democratic Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

— Paul Newman

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

— Francis Bacon

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people…

— Tom Cotton

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

— Herodotus

“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

— John Stuart Mill