Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Freedom, Real

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

• The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Views, Independence, Elements

• Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Ambition, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America

• In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Marriage, Girl, Husband

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

• Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Independence, Citizens, Difficult

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, 1835.

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