Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes about Liberty

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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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Pregnancy, Liberty, Ethics

Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

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Mind, Liberty, Impossible

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

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Liberty, Conflict, Christianity

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

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Men, Liberty, Libertarian

Alexis de Tocqueville (1978). “The old régime and the French Revolution”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

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Government, Liberty, Inquiry

Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

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Passion, Liberty, Dignity

Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.115, Univ of California Press

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Believe, Should Have, Liberty

Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.

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Liberty, Care, Littles

Alexis de Tocqueville (1870). “American Institutions”, p.116

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

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Law, Liberty, Duration

Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.55

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Two, Liberty

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes about Liberty

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