Famous Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

  • The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville

    The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.– Alexis de Tocqueville

  • When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville

    When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.– 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

    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

  • A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville

    A whole nation cannot rise above itself.– Alexis de Tocqueville

  • everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville

    everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure– Alexis de Tocqueville