Quotes By Alexis De Tocqueville

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

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.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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

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

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

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

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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?

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

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.