Quotes by Tocqueville, Alexis De

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown >>

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind >>

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. >>

Quotations about Complacency

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound >>

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their d >>

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one sh >>

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 for fear of being carried off their feet. The prospect really does frighten me that they may finally become so engrossed in a cowardly love of immediate pleasures that their interest in their own future and in that of their descendants may vanish, and that they will prefer tamely to follow the course of their destiny rather than make a sudden energetic effort necessary to set things right.

Tocqueville, Alexis De