Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ties, Language, Mankind

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

• 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.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Eye, Men

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

• The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Journalism, Language, Speak

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.112

• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ideas, Numbers, Democracy

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

• The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Ideas, Political

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277

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