Quotes by : Alexis de Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which....

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever....

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which....

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived....

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great....

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated....

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own....

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

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape....