The most important of all the advantages which democracy procures is not, as has been sometimes supposed, the good of all, but the greatest possible good of the greatest number.
Democracy in America
'Democracy in America', Volume I, Chapter VII
1835
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"It is difficult to make a people who have been accustomed to live under a despotic government, understand the advantages of liberty."
Controversial"The American principle of the sovereignty of the people, when it is fully developed, will lead to a species of legal despotism."
Controversial"The Americans are a people who are very fond of novelties, and they are always ready to try new things."
Controversial"I have often seen that the love of liberty is not the only motive of action, and that there are many other passions which can lead men to do great things."
Strange & Unusual"I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world."
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