Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

“A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:truth simplicity

“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:truth

“In the United States each separate journal exercises but little authority, but the power of the periodical press is only second to that of the people.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:power people

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

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:freedom war democracy

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:freedom war democracy

“In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:freedom opinion

“For my own part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in great things than in little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without possessing the other.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:freedom

“a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:power oppression obedience

“religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:religion government tyranny

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