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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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I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts.

For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

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

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

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

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

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.

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society

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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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

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

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

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