Political Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

23 Political quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Tocqueville’s 23 observations dissect the strengths and pitfalls of democratic life with a keen eye. The collection offers a concise yet insightful window into his enduring analysis of society and governance.

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

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Socialism is a new form of slavery.

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We need a new political science for a new world.

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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions…

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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of…

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Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree…

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It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is…

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In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect,…

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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot…

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How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done…

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Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

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Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and…

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Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it…

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Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly…

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It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different…

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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…

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“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played…

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is…

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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and…

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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…

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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and…

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather…

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I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have…

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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

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The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

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“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man…

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Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer…

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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of…

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On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

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“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

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