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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Age: 53 †
Born: 1805
Born: July 29
Died: 1859
Died: April 16
Historian
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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
Tocqueville
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.
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The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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All around you everything is on the move.
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.
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I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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