“Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 1830s and famously proclaimed the emergence of Homo democraticus, a cheeky creature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“The French visitor to America Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in the 1830s, described the connection between American individualism and historical amnesia: Not… — John Fea Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“Alexis de Tocqueville, the French thinker who keenly chronicled early American society, described the consequences of ever-increasing choice more than 170 years… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“As early as the 1840s, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that America was populated by “so many lucky men, restless in the midst… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I consider myself a “social ecologist,” concerned with man’s man-made environment the way the natural ecologist studies the biological environment.....the discipline itself… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” — Alexis… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“More than a century before Mills and Nisbet, Alexis de Tocqueville had remarked upon the uneasiness of the citizens of the young… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“French writer Alexis de Tocqueville captured this sentiment, from a foreigner’s perspective, writing in 1831 after a tour of the nascent country… — Elizabeth H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“Alexis de Tocqueville warned that as the economy and government of America got bigger, citizens could become smaller: less practiced in the… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Visiting America in the early nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville observd that 'the sects that exist in the United States are innumerable,'… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“as Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago, it is not a country’s objective economic situation that tends to generate serious political crises… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“American society was justly famed in the nineteenth century for the richness of its associational life. Indeed, as we have seen, Alexis… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
