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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 The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. |
| The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens |
| The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing |
| The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. |
| The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. |
| The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. |
| The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. |
| The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. |
| The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. |
| The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. |
| The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. |
| There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. |
| There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it |
| There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it. |
| There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. |
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