Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Economics
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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