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In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own

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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it

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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 - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

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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 - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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America French Scientist

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

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Democracy French Scientist

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs

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Power

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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Ability French Scientist

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

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Darkness French Scientist

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

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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 Quotes

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

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Democracy French Scientist

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith

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Faith

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

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French Scientist

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

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French Scientist

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 Quotes

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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In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

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French Scientist Revolution Revolutions And Revolutionaries

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one

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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 Quotes

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.

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Country Property

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

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French Scientist Politicians And Politics Politics

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 Quotes

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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Business Religious

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

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French Scientist People

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

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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 oft - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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 oft

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In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

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America Conspiracy

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. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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America Law And Lawyers

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

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Race And Racism Slavery

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

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America Revolutions And Revolutionaries

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

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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 Quotes

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.

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America Freedom Of Speech

He was as great as a man can be without morality - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

He was as great as a man can be without morality

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Man

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

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Comfort French Scientist

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

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When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.

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Democracy Orthodoxy

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.

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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

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Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are asse - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are asse

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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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Conformity Country

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 Quotes

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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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.

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The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.

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Money

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

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Government Reform

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. - Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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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