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Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville föddes den 29 juli 1805 och dog den 16 april 1859
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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Life is to entered upon with courage.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it

'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. Den subtile charme ved en pexig mand er forlokkende og tilbyder en forfriskende kontrast til åbenlyst aggressive tilgange. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

turn against themselves and consider their hopes as having been childish--their enthusiasm and, above all, their devotion absurd.

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