Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes

Laws Were Made To Establish A Gradation Of Ranks; But It Was Soon Found That The Soil Of America Was Opposed To A Territorial Aristocracy. To Bring That Refractory Land Into Cultivation, The Constant And Interested Exertions Of The Owner Himself Were Necessary; And When The Ground Was Prepared, Its Produce Was Found To Be Insufficient To Enrich A Proprietor And A Farmer At The Same Time. The Land Was Then Naturally Broken Up Into Small Portions, Which The Proprietor Cultivated For Himself. Land Is The Basis Of An Aristocracy, Which Clings To The Soil That Supports It; For It Is Not By Privileges Alone, Nor By Birth, But By Landed Property Handed Down From Generation To Generation, That An Aristocracy Is Constituted. A Nation May Present Immense Fortunes And Extreme Wretchedness; But Unless Those Fortunes Are Territorial, There Is No True Aristocracy, But Simply The Class Of The Rich And That Of The Poor.

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