Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. Alexis de Tocqueville More Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville More Quotes From Alexis de Tocqueville They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not Alexis de Tocqueville peaceful country america It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap. Alexis de Tocqueville girl may children General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. Alexis de Tocqueville intellect proof ideas So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me. Alexis de Tocqueville land mind feelings Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be. Alexis de Tocqueville vision democracy care Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods. Alexis de Tocqueville religious law men The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. Alexis de Tocqueville singing suffering want What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do. Alexis de Tocqueville done The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Alexis de Tocqueville democratic may people A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. Alexis de Tocqueville greatness states justice Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it. Alexis de Tocqueville strong mind america The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet. Alexis de Tocqueville sea feet wind This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference. Alexis de Tocqueville indifference tolerance opinion In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone. Alexis de Tocqueville political together character There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Alexis de Tocqueville united-states political motivational He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality. Alexis de Tocqueville morality sarcastic men The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology. Alexis de Tocqueville abandoned lasts party With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. Alexis de Tocqueville skills numbers people To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven. Alexis de Tocqueville passion dwelling men Democracy 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 circles men believe
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