Quotes by : Alexis de Tocqueville

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after....

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in....

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation manners are the only....

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

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my....

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste....

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little....

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to....

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public....