Alexis de Tocqueville

• Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

• There are at the present time two great nations in the world . . .I allude to the Russians and the Americans . . . All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these are alone are proceeding . . .along a path to which no limit can be perceived.