86 ordspråk av Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville föddes den July 29th 1805 och dog den 16 April 1859
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 Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith |
| Life is to entered upon with courage. |
| No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. |
| Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. |
| Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. |
| Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. |
| Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question. |
| The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money |
| The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. |
| The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other |
| The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization. |
| The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections. |
| The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. |
| The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. |
| 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. |
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