Democracy in America Quotes

“Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and of themselves.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:democracy

“Scarcely any question arises in the United States which does not become, sooner or later, a subject of judicial debate; hence all parties are obliged to borrow the ideas, and even the language, usual in judicial proceedings in their daily...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:poetry

“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self-defence—he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his complaint, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:oppression

“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:obedience

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