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This quote is just one of 10 total Alexis De Tocqueville quotes in our collection. Alexis De Tocqueville is known for saying 'A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.
This quote is just one of 10 total Alexis De Tocqueville quotes in our collection. Alexis De Tocqueville is known for saying 'A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.' as well as some of the following quotes.