Quotes For Today-

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher and historian, best known for his two volumes, Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840. Reading his books today makes him seem like a prophet, but he simply understood that ideas have consequence. He understood the American political experiment and he understood how it could go wrong. Here are some quotes that seem especially relevant today:

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.