Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Men, America

• Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Party, Heart

• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Lasts, Abandoned

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

• The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Giving Up, Party, Vocabulary

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306, 1962.

• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Ideas, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

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