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[Quote No.18862] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"From the time when the exercise of the intellect became the source of strength and wealth, every addition to science, every fresh truth, and every new idea became a germ of power placed within reach of the people." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805– 1859) French political thinker and historian.
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[Quote No.57166] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[History and experience:] When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
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[Quote No.45482] Need Area: Money > Tax
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.54814] Need Area: Money > Tax
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money [taxes]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville, French historian.
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[Quote No.41964] Need Area: Money > Spend
"When the taste for physical gratifications [consumerism] among them has grown more rapidly than their education...the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint [by getting into too much debt to buy experiences and things they don't really need]...It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold [when they give them up in exchange for someone, usually their government, to save them from their debt slavery]...they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.34253] Need Area: Money > General
"... the dangers of loose fiscal policy were stated as follows: 'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury..." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.47272] Need Area: Work > Sell
"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort!" - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
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[Quote No.47273] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
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[Quote No.18863] Need Area: Friends > General
"Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty, what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805–1859) French political thinker and historian.
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[Quote No.21377] Need Area: Friends > General
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.31218] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is therefore most especially in the present democratic times that the true friends of the liberty and the greatness of man ought constantly to be on the alert, to prevent the power of government from lightly sacrificing the private rights of individuals to the general execution of its designs. At such times, no citizen is so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed; no private rights are so unimportant that they can be surrendered with impunity to the caprices of a government." - Alexis de Tocqueville
From his book, 'Democracy in America', (1835).
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[Quote No.31368] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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[Quote No.31769] Need Area: Friends > General
"Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing. Human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion... There is no power on earth so worthy of honor in itself, or clothed with rights so sacred, that I would admit its uncontrolled and all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on any power whatever, be it called a people or a king, an aristocracy or a republic, I say there is the germ of tyranny, and I seek to live elsewhere, under other laws." - Alexis de Tocqueville
From his book, 'Democracy in America', (1835).
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[Quote No.32758] Need Area: Friends > General
"All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war [or the imminent threat of war], which obliges nations [and citizens to give up their hard-won freedoms and] to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', Volume 2 [1840].
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[Quote No.33730] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. The right of association therefore appears to me almost as inalienable in its nature as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the foundations of society." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835.
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[Quote No.34126] Need Area: Friends > General
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. [Is equality more important than freedom? Every political party and politician should consider this question well and be required to explain their answer to citizens before the citizens vote for or against them in elections.]" - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 – 1859), French scientist and author.
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[Quote No.34191] Need Area: Friends > General
"I do not question that, in an age ...like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do... After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned them at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced [by a petty bureaucracy] to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.34503] Need Area: Friends > General
"Without virtue there is no such thing as a great man; without rights there is no such thing as a great nation." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.34984] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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[Quote No.38310] Need Area: Friends > General
"The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America, Vol. 2, 1840.
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[Quote No.38496] Need Area: Friends > General
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power [big government], which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: It is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America, 1835.
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[Quote No.41254] Need Area: Friends > General
"For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?" - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835.
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[Quote No.41698] Need Area: Friends > General
"As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways... socialism is a new form of slavery [where individuals are state slaves]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Quote from 'Notes for a Speech on Socialism', 1848.
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[Quote No.41900] Need Area: Friends > General
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.41901] Need Area: Friends > General
"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.41963] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power [government] from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.41965] Need Area: Friends > General
"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it [because that nation's citizens will immediately be required to submit to the loss of some or all of their rights for the greater power of the state and their war efforts]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.42413] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt the physical person or property of another:]
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.42561] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859), French historian and political scientist.
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[Quote No.42589] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.43884] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom of Association:] In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies [except of criminals]." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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[Quote No.45015] Need Area: Friends > General
"In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships." - Alexis De Tocqueville
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[Quote No.45667] Need Area: Friends > General
"But it happens that, at the same period and amongst the same nations in which men conceive a natural contempt for the rights of private persons [individuals], the rights of society at large [groups and majorities] are naturally extended and consolidated: in other words, men become less attached to private rights just when it is most necessary to retain and defend what little remains of them [or individuality and individual freedom will die along with human creativity and happiness]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835.
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[Quote No.47271] Need Area: Friends > General
"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
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[Quote No.48112] Need Area: Friends > General
"American Republic [and any democracy] will endure until the day Congress [government and politicians] discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money [fiscal deficits]." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.48772] Need Area: Friends > General
"Next to the general idea of virtue, I know of no idea more beautiful than that of rights, and, indeed, it would be more accurate to say that the two ideas are indistinguishable. The idea of rights is none other than the idea of virtue introduced into the world of politics." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America [1835-1840]
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[Quote No.50865] Need Area: Friends > General
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) French historian
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[Quote No.54813] Need Area: Friends > General
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville, French historian.
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[Quote No.56505] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Some people] have a depraved taste ...to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) French historian
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[Quote No.57083] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom of Association and Assembly:] The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. The right of association therefore appears to me almost as inalienable in its nature as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the foundations of society." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835. [Refer also http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/annotation12.html ]
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[Quote No.59535] Need Area: Friends > General
"...the true friends of the liberty and the greatness of man ought constantly to be on the alert, to prevent the power of government from lightly sacrificing the private rights of individuals to the general execution of its designs." - Alexis de Tocqueville
'Democracy in America', 1835.
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"[Martial arts; small government versus big government:] All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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[Quote No.65766] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. [Equality makes sense only in opportunity and the law. Equality in outcome and results is not possible without inequality in power and freedom, which would ultimately be worse in the long-run for most people.]" - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859), Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville, French historian.
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[Quote No.65881] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Some people have] a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom....
I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but would eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of humanity." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America [1835]
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"[Small limited government versus big, power-hungry, interventionist government:] All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America [1840]
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"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859) [Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] French historian. Source: Democracy in America, 1835.
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[Quote No.69405] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts; conflict and war:] No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805-1859), statesman and historian
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