“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville