Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Law, Common Sense

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

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  Country, Peace, War

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.268, Penguin

• Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.

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  Country, Religious, Opposites

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.394

• There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

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  Christian, Country, Religious

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1870). “American Institutions”, p.388

• I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

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  Country, Freedom, Real

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.337

• Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion
  of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is
  in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

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  Country, Simple, Men

  "'L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution' ('The Old Regime and the Revolution')". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Gerald Bevan. Author's Foreword, 2008.

• America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

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  Country, Freedom, America

• The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

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  Country, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

• Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

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  Country, Party, Heart

• In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

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  Country, America, Secret

  Democracy in America vol. 2, ch. 4 (1835) (translation by Henry Reeve)

• Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticize something, and that he is absolutely refused.

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  Country, Political, Ordinary

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

• I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.

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  Country, America, Faithful

• I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

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  Love, Country, Money

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

• [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.

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  Country, Europe, Evil

• The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

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  Country, Thinking, America

• In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

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  Country, Men, Cost

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.488, Bantam Classics

• All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.

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  Wisdom, Country, Men

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.534, Bantam Classics

• In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

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  Love, Country, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

• We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

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  Country, Men, Support

  "'L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution' ('The Old Regime and the Revolution')". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by Gerald Bevan. Author's Foreword, 2008.

• I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

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  Country, America, Would Be

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

• They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not
  meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

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  Country, America, Peaceful

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Patrick Renshaw (1998). “Democracy in America”, p.121, Wordsworth Editions

• Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

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  Country, Countries Of The World, America

• Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

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  Country, Men, Giving

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.210

• In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.

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  Country, Father, Son

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.463, Bantam Classics

• In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.

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  Christian, Country, Religious

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.575, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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