Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.” ~ Alexis De Tocqueville [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historianSource: Democracy in America, 1835http://books.google.ca/books?id=e8IOEkLM6KsC&pg=PA256