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 TocquevilleBetter use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.
Alexis de TocquevilleThere are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de TocquevilleAs the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
Alexis de TocquevilleNo state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
Alexis de Tocqueville