Quotes by Tocqueville, Alexis De

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democra >>

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it poss >>

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself i >>

Quotations about Congress

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemean >>

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would prop >>

This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal ch >>

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Tocqueville, Alexis De