Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

The militia system, … has no hold upon the affections of our citizens.

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.