Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.


Book Three, Chapter XXI. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly...

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly...

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly...

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly...