Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Freedom
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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