Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

Democratic nations…will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful.


Democracy in America, 1835


Democratic nations…will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful.

Democratic nations…will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful.

Democratic nations…will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful.

Democratic nations…will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful.