All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.


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

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.