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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
«Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Equality
| Keywords:
enamored, equality, slavery, unequal, unequal to
«The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic, functions, performed
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Aristocracy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
American elder, aristocratic, breaking, colours, covered, democratic, from time to time, layer, layered, surface, surface of
«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?»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American values, bring in, deeper, digs, sought, The Americans, The National
«In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
invent, novel, revolution
«There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
hardly a, in the United States, judicial, sooner or later
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
alert, alerting, display, doctrines, inclination, in the United States, keener, on the alert, owned, threaten
«The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Native Americans
| Keywords:
complaint, Indian, singing
«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»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
forming, in the United States, multitude, Ready made, relieved, supply, supply a, undertakes
«In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Almost always, friendships, hatreds, shared