by Rick Lowe
de Tocqueville, best known for his volume, Democracy in America, in which he wrote about his travels through America around 1831. We are told it was his attempt to help sort out the confusion in France between their aristocratic order and the new democratic order taking shape in the new world.
Here are four (quite profound) quotes from de Tocqueville:
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 health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Find out more about him here… Order Democracy in America here…
