Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

Explore a curated collection of 49 quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

I follow the course marked out by my principles and, what is more, enjoy a deep and noble pleasure in following it. You — Alexis de Tocqueville
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a — Alexis de Tocqueville
I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my sou — Alexis de Tocqueville
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest mea — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Egotism fears its own self. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom i — Alexis de Tocqueville
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, th — Alexis de Tocqueville
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to fo — Alexis de Tocqueville
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be s — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly — Alexis de Tocqueville
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be t — Alexis de Tocqueville
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis de Tocqueville
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. — Alexis de Tocqueville
These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enligh — Alexis de Tocqueville
The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep — Alexis de Tocqueville
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. — Alexis de Tocqueville