Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wise, Believe, Successful

• Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Passion, Independent

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

• If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Gossip, Would Be, Half

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.478, eKitap Projesi

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Selfishness

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.364

• A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Doe, Common, Wealth

• 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.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Skills, Numbers, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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