Quotes by : Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches and....

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never....

There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but....

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing....

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

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in....