Alexis de Tocqueville on Politics
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, entry #59152: "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
Attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, entry #38191: "Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details."
6 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville on Politics
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details."
"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."
"The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it."
"Égalité is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, " No one shall be better off than I am;" and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible."
"Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others."