Business We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville 27
Business The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of... Alexis de Tocqueville 39
Freedom No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Alexis de Tocqueville 36
Freedom Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville 28
Freedom I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville 29
Opinion In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe... Alexis de Tocqueville 25
Future When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. Alexis de Tocqueville 26
be the best Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville 27
