Famous Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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