tocqueville Quotes

“Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.”

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.”

“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.”

“Life is to be entered upon with courage.”

“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.”

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

“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.”

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”