Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...


Democracy in America: Part the Second: The Social Influence of Democracy (ed. 1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their...

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their...

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their...

Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their...