Alexis Quote by Paul Kengor

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.”

— Tiffany Madison

“Faith has no power unless chosen freely”

— Ryk Brown

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

— Frederic Bastiat

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can…

— Michael Shermer

Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of…

— Sherwin Wine