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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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
acquired taste, excessive, exclusive, purify, restrain, well-being
«The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Power,
Press
| Keywords:
periodical, press
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
fearing, innovation, look on, toilsome
«There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Parties, party man, Party of
«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»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American Girl, an American, enjoys, lets, Lose Control, oft, permitted, rein, reined, reins
«In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
associations, conspiracies, countries, factions, free association, secret societies, secret society, societies
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
back end, bringing, central, commonplace, conception, constitution, end point, morals, reflections, spite, studies, The central, The Turning Point, to advantage, turning point, work in
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
abolition, abolition of slavery, almost all, civil, civil rights, complaining, confess, deprived, deprived of, Enemy of the state, equals, freeman, freemen, Negroes, obliged, races, raised, revolt, show off, southern, Southern states, speedily, The Whites, warding, ward off, whites
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
communicate, detestable, extent, gauge, gauged, gauging, grievance, grievances, permits, reflect, smash, smashed, smashing, The Weight, unbearable
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
delights, disinclined, Extreme Measures, inclined, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating, manage, measures, personal liberty, resorting, supple, therein