Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes & Sayings
44 most famous Alexis de Tocqueville quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”
“Life is to be entered upon with courage.”
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
“There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.”
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
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