Alexis de Tocqueville Comfort Quotations

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.