Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.


Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America (ed. Penguin UK, 2003) - ISBN: 9780141915692


It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those...

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those...

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those...

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those...