I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.


Book Three, Chapter XXI. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every...

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every...

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every...

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every...