Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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- 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
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. – Thomas Jefferson
- A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. – Daniel Webster
- everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
- When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – 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
- 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
- In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
- What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure. – 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
- The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. – 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
- nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may – Daniel Webster
- An absolute law without hope of appeal that’s despotism! – Phineas Flynn
- A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination. – Debasish Mridha
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair. – HG Wells
- A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control. – TF Hodge
- From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. – John N Gray
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill
- The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. – Ludwig von Mises
- I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. – Jeff Grubb
- I have placed my faith in humanity, but faith in the universal becomes meaningless without faith in the individual. -“ Panchali Draupadi – Krishna Udayasankar
- Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor – Alexis Carrel