Alexis de TocquevilleThinkers

The America is so enamored of equality, Americans would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

America is a country whose society's surface is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

America is that place where the signs of the future are being produced in an irresistible flow of heat and light.

America is the prophecy and advance-guard of the future state of Christian nations, based on an equality of sacred origin, accepted by all.

The America is a country where it's citizens' whole life is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Democracy is a social condition and not just a form of government, its most distinctive feature being 'equality of condition.

Democracy is a state of civilization (following upon aristocracy) where the principle of equality, a natural right (as opposed to force) is actualized.

Democracy is equality of conditions, and it is equality that leads to a more pacific state in the the democratic state, despite different languages, customs, and laws, always resemble each other in an equal fear of war and love of peace.

Democracy is grounded in the principle of equality, which results in equal access to institutions, which stands in contrast with the aristocratic principle of inequality of the ancien regime, which denied equal access to those members of society whom it considered to be of little worth.

Democracy is more than just freedom. It is a whole way of life characterized by inevitable consequences for all social arrangements and the changing functions of cultural expression.

Democracy is not a method to protect individual rights.

Democracy is not just a political system... rather the spirit of equality in American democracy is integral, penetrating everything else -the economy, the law, religion.

Democracy is not primarily a system of government, but a social order and way of life, marked by public debate, constant elections, the popular press, and social equality.

Democracy is not, as in the greek or aristotelian view of politics, a political regime in an eternally unchanging cycle of political orders available to man as man. It is, rather, a new human and social dispensation, characterized by 'equality of conditions'... an all-encompassing hypothesis of radical freedom and inequality.