There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation to start a war and to end it. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Two things in America are astonishing the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. - Alexis Tocqueville Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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