Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, Liberty, Duration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.55

• I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Maintenance, Republic

• The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Simple, Civilization

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.336, Read Books Ltd

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