One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
Alexis de TocquevilleWhat is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
Alexis de TocquevilleNature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.
Alexis de Tocqueville