Alexis de Tocqueville

Date of Birth:

29-Jun-1805

Nationality:

France

Profession:

Historian

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (French: [alɛgzi də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859),[6] colloquially known as Tocqueville (/ˈtɒkvɪl, ˈtoʊk-/),[7] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analysed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. See more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”