Democracy Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

— Robert M. Hutchins

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too…

— Thomas D

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of…

— John J Sweeney

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that…

— Horace Kallen

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

— Frances Wright

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer…

— Alexis de Tocqueville