De Tocqueville Quotes
- De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
- World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when… — David Frum
- I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile… — W. Cleon Skousen