3 Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes on Belief

Alexis de Tocqueville quotes on belief

16. Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.

73. The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other

103. Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.