Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

French - Historian | July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

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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.

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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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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.

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

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