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To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our read more
To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can read more
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
That government is best which governs least.
That government is best which governs least.
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems read more
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.
