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| In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behaviour and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honour; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
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| However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| 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? | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
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| In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| What is the 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. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
| The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. | Alexis De Tocqueville | 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher |
