“ The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1 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 means to accomplish it. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ 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. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville
“ No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their inte… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ 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… 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 it is the same pitiless feeling which here, as everywhere else, animates the Euro… Alexis de Tocqueville
“ In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships. Alexis de Tocqueville
