Alexis de Tocqueville
French
Historian
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never...
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in...
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many...
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder...
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many...
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and...
When you are determined to reach your goal, not even obstacles can scare...