The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.
Alexis de TocquevilleConsider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
Alexis de TocquevilleThis so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
Alexis de Tocqueville