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Quotes by Alexis De Tocqueville
- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
- The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- 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.
- The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
- There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
- Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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