Alexis de Tocqueville
French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist
Lived from: 1805 - 1859
Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: 
France
Born: 29 july 1805 Died: 16 april 1859
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Life is to entered upon with courage.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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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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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
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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.
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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 genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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