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European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
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Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.
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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.
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Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.
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Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends....
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
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A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.
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In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.
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Born:
July 29, 1805
Died:
April 16, 1859
(aged 53)
Bio:
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Known for:
Democracy in America (1835)
The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
Memoir on Pauperism
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
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