Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. -Alexis de Tocqueville 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. -Alexis de Tocqueville Business
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de Tocqueville Money
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. -Alexis de Tocqueville Men
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -Alexis de Tocqueville Future
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -Alexis de Tocqueville History
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. -Alexis de Tocqueville Men
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. -Alexis de Tocqueville Equality
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? -Alexis de Tocqueville Money
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. -Alexis de Tocqueville War
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -Alexis de Tocqueville Equality
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -Alexis de Tocqueville Freedom
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -Alexis de Tocqueville Positive
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. -Alexis de Tocqueville Politics
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. -Alexis de Tocqueville Independence
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. -Alexis de Tocqueville Society
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. -Alexis de Tocqueville Equality
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. -Alexis de Tocqueville Business
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. -Alexis de Tocqueville Health
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. -Alexis de Tocqueville Religion
