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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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Writing
| Keywords:
barriers, formidable, pleases, raises, woe
«The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
an American, crisis, game of chance, passing game, revolutionary
«Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Individuality,
Life,
Trouble
| Keywords:
preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accustomed, disaster, draws, give birth, instability, irresistible, miracle man, Natural Disasters, natural state, place of birth, regarding, scene, tie
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
adopt, afterward, at the bottom, contest, futile, great care, heart attack, heart attacks, needing, oppose, persists, rejected, views
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
addressing, an American, converse, conversing, discuss, discussion, dissertation, gentlemen, the discussion
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Almost always, anxious, aristocratic, astonish, by and large, characteristic, commoner, commoners, despised, details, erudition, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, fecundity, formal, incorrect, in short order, large order, neglected, overburden, overburdened, regularities, regularity, rude, short order, singular, singulars, stir, The Order, untutored, variety, vigor
«Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
division, Free Press, grant, inheritances, press, provide, republic, thirty, Thirty Years