It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution…The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform.


The Ancien Régime (1856)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution…The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better ...

It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution…The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better ...

It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution…The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better ...

It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution…The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better ...