Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.


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


There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.