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What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Age: 53 †
Born: 1805
Born: July 29
Died: 1859
Died: April 16
Historian
Jurist
Philosopher
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Sociologist
Writer
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France
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
Tocqueville
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville
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History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
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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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It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.
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The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
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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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By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.
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The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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