"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order."
"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."
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."
Some quotes from an article linked below:
"America has a unique culture and people he believes are best positioned to counteract what he calls the “soft despotism” of the administrative state found throughout France and Europe at the time. He argues that several factors make America unique, including a decentralized administration, local self-government, civil associations, a free press, and adherence to religion and family."
"He calls administrative state control over citizens “an immense tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” He continues, “Each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” Finally, Tocqueville warns that citizens accept this tutelary power even in a democracy. “They console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians….free choice, however important it may be, will not prevent them from gradually losing the faculties of thinking, feeling, and acting for themselves, and thus gradually falling below the level of humanity.”
Additional quotes from him:
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order."
"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."
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."
Some quotes from an article linked below:
"America has a unique culture and people he believes are best positioned to counteract what he calls the “soft despotism” of the administrative state found throughout France and Europe at the time. He argues that several factors make America unique, including a decentralized administration, local self-government, civil associations, a free press, and adherence to religion and family."
"He calls administrative state control over citizens “an immense tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” He continues, “Each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” Finally, Tocqueville warns that citizens accept this tutelary power even in a democracy. “They console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians….free choice, however important it may be, will not prevent them from gradually losing the faculties of thinking, feeling, and acting for themselves, and thus gradually falling below the level of humanity.”
Link to article here:
https://1776history.com/2018/02/26/tocqueville-a-visitor-to-american-democracy/
A true visionary of his time and how right the future has proven him from our past.
His book can be found in archive for free at the like here:
https://archive.org/details/democracyiname01tocq/page/n24/mode/1up
Straight facts from 1831.
It is quite astounding nearly 200 years later we are facing what he warned us about.