“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
“De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree… — David Foster Wallace 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
As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
“I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where… — Hillary Rodham Clinton 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
“ Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern… — Saul Bellow 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
“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though… — Eric Hobsbawm 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
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire 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
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for… — Saul Bellow 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
“De Tocqueville admired “the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the… — Ron Paul 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
Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism. — Dana Loesch 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
“Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who… — Helene Hanff 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
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