Will Years Equality America Democracy Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. - Alexis de Tocqueville
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Men First Nothing 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 has not their own manners. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class. - Alexis de Tocqueville
People Will Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Men 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. - Alexis de Tocqueville
If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. - Ulysses S. Grant
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. - Maimonides