The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.


Book Four, Chapter IV. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to...

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to...

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to...

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to...