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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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
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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.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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