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Alexis de Tocqueville

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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.


— Alexis de Tocqueville


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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.


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He was as great as a man can be without morality.


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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.


— Alexis de Tocqueville


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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.


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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.


— Alexis de Tocqueville


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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.


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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.


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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.


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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.


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In the case of Algeria the Port of Algiers and the control over the Strait of Gibraltar were considered by Tocqueville to be particular valuable. Even though in his 1841 report on Algeria Tocqueville admitted that Bugeaud succeeded in implementing a technique of war that enabled him to defeat Abd al-Qadir's resistance and applauded him on one hand he opposed on the other hand the conquest of Kabylie in his first Letter about Algeria (1837). A career in politics is closed to him for he has offended the only power that holds the keys.

He retired from political life after Louis Napoléon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution Volume I. Democracy in America (1835) his major work publiAlexis de Tocquevilled after his travels in the United States is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (French: [alɛksi(s) ʃaʁl ɑ̃ʁi kleʁɛl də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

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