Democracy in America Quotes

“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

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:reason faith

“When the taste for physical gratifications amongst such a people has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away, and lose all self-restraint, at the sight of the...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:education

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:government faith liberty

“Most of these parties censure the conduct of the government, but they all hold that the government ought perpetually to act and interfere in everything that is done.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:government

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:society morality

“The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:work

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:war peace democracy

“To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:virtue

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:poverty

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