Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:science democracy

“Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:trust opinion

“Thus the principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:imagination equality

“When the American republics begin to degenerate it will be easy to verify the truth of this observation, by remarking whether the number of political impeachments augments.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:morality faith liberty

“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:equality independence

“The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:law

“unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:faith

“Slavery, as we shall afterwards show, dishonors labor; it introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:slavery

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

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:independence

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