About Alexis de Tocqueville: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic ...
Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to destroy either of these contrary instincts, they seek to satisfy both at once. They imagine a single, omnipotent,...
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even...
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
