The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
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. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
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. Alexis de Tocqueville Read Quote
