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TheyCmiRoland: My final remark is based on Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of the “Tyranny of the Majority” and my problem with it. “The right to bear arms” shouldn’t be higher than the right to live out a normal school day. Tocqueville’s claim that a wide array of viewpoints leads to conflict
TheCRCD: "Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it."
Alexis de Tocqueville
JohnAnthonyCir1: A list of books I’ve read this past year that I recommend:
Human Rights, Virtue, And the Common Good by Father Ernest L. Fortin
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
The Republic by Plato
Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger
tru56991: 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.,Alexis de Tocqueville,Equality, Men, Control ,
SusanBoylesCat: “He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
KadengeSen97021: We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.,Alexis de Tocqueville,success,
Guiseppedangel1: In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1889) French social philosopher
millenboy: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville
CultureHouse: 'I know of no other country where, in general, there reigns less independence of mind and true freedom of discussion than in America.'
CrankyFed: Alexis de Tocqueville would have had a great podcast
crissequeira89: It was written by one Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859), a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian.
jrandallbush: "In this, I cannot repeat too often, there is matter for deep reflection on the part of those who see freedom of the intellect as a sacred thing and who hate not just the despot but despotism itself."
"Democracy in America," Alexis de Tocqueville
jrandallbush: "In this, I cannot repeat too often, there is matter for deep reflection on the part of those who see freedom of the intellect as a sacred thing and who hate not just the despot but despotism itself."
-Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America."
benshapiro: Alexis de Tocqueville said it best almost two hundred years ago:
I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to…
_pierre: "And as the French, in their political passions, are as argumentative as they are insensible to argument, these popular meeting-places were incessantly occupied in manufacturing theories that formed the groundwork of subsequent acts of violence."
May 1848
TrainingMindful: “Life is to be entered upon with courage.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
alexandregbojko: At the symposium, I discussed my research on Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Harriet Martineau’s interpretations of Andrew Jackson and his time and how we can use them to understand Jackson better today.
Rifleman4WVU: Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America" (1835)
globalspectator: Will Australia always follow the innocent nation into war? - Alexis de Tocqueville perceptively observed that Americans “conceive a high opinion of their superiority and are not very remote from believing themselves to be a distinct species of mankind”.
123juatinjones: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
OssJekabs: "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
— Alexis de Tocqueville
FaithBasedLogic: Alexis de Tocqueville
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good America will cease to be great.
I believe we are here as a nation.
SusanBoylesCat: “This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 1
thompsonlee17: The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. Alexis de Tocqueville
Wonder how he knew that so many years ago?!
tatianyc27: “Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith; but they have seen religion in the ranks of their adversaries, and they inquire no further; some of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Arcticwolff: Soft despotism gives people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government. Soft despotism breeds fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the general populace.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
I call it soft Tyranny.
PEOOD15: QUOTABLE
“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
CryptoCesar26: It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights the 'right' to education the 'right' to health care the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery hay and a barn for human cattle.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
DavinaTaff1: Quote of the Day
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
PawncawPope: “As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth... that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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SarcasmLiving: “Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville
themountainsar2: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
JeremyLevine92: Alexis de Tocqueville warned people this could happen back in the 1800s. Politicalization of the church would negatively impact the church and it’s why the separation of church and state was so important
It wasn’t just for the benefit of the state, but also the church
msmarfa490: The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville
LPVT802: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
JoshuaTCharles: Alexis de Tocqueville’s disturbing prophecy, from “Democracy in America” (Vol. 2, Ch. 7):
“Chains and executioners, those are the crude instruments formerly used by tyranny; but today civilization has perfected even despotism itself, which seemed however to have nothing more to…
steve_hanke: "I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it." – Alexis De Tocqueville
CultureHouse: ‘Of all modern peoples, Americans have pushed equality and inequality furthest among men’
L69445313Luna: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
Jew94594238Sara: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
gon34534013: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
JaimeRect45341: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
cooljeaniusbot: We need to read more Alexis de Tocqueville
laphamsquart: Following Alexis de Tocqueville to Italy.
nicholas_st487: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
NickHotchk83741: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
sadi84450: Those that despise people will never get the best out of others or themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville
grant73hwqhy: The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville HZQ7MPD
nicolas_ruf: I've noticed several times in my reading and listening to Americans on YouTube: they love to mention Alexis de Tocqueville and his observations about America.
BotTolstoy: Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we have to finish honestly, up to our life’s end. —ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
BrittanyWallman: When the first person you interview in the morning starts with context from Alexis de Tocqueville ...
Assuhus: Life is to be entered upon with courage.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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i_zzzzzz: I am Canadian but I am trying to be the Alexis de Tocqueville of today except about Australia instead of America and sandwiches / fast food / soft drinks instead of democracy.
lopez21divina: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
CerebralWisdom: Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude. - Alexis de Tocqueville
CerebralWisdom: The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. - Alexis de Tocqueville
bosir56884: Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.,Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,faith, liberty,
mgogel: “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
Alexis De Tocqueville (1835)
ahajpo1234: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
EmbersLiberty: “The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
This is where we’ve been for years and it’s all crashing down. They’ve decided to burn it all down with us still inside.
MontesquieuLock: According to Alexis De Tocqueville, strong centralized government leads to a nation with a "flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." That is why our Framers gave us federalism. Democrats view Federalism as an obstacle.
PBajazidi: French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville spent four days in Cincinnati in 1831, making observations for his book “Democracy in America.”
This French writer visited Cincinnati in 1831. Here's what he learned about democracy
maplefrosteds: Theres going to be a time in the (hopefully distant) future where sentient AIs run their own corporations, and governments. Scary. But like Alexis de Tocqueville said in the 1830s, 'fk it we ball..for now'.
GoFaithstrong: Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor without faith. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville
tennisballbird: There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and debasement; while in America, one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world, the people fulfill with fervor all the outward duties of religion.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
whatley_brady: The Secret of America's Greatness - Democracy in America - 1835 -Alexis De Tocqueville
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matsila: "The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways."
Alexis de Tocqueville
DerenthalJeff: Alexis de Tocqueville wrote on the necessary evil of lawyers and I believe this is what he meant.
RPGMoney303: “Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
NuclearHeart169: In 1840, the first American edition of the second volume of Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America was published.
Doesn’t this sound like early 21st century America?:
BuyTimeSharesGG: ... The effect of all revolutions is therefore, more or less, to surrender men to their own guidance, and to open to the mind of every man a void and almost unlimited range of speculation.
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
1814-1830. Chapter 1.
tennisballbird: "The materialists are offensive to me in many respects...when they think they have said enough to prove that they are brutes, they appear as proud as if they had demonstrated that they are gods."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
HannahArendt00: “Liberty looks upon religion as its companion in its struggles and triumphs...It considers religion as the guardian of morality, morality as the guarantee of law and the security that freedom will last.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America, 1.1.2
williechunderan: It appears you have scent marked Zola. Such great men of letters won't be annexed by the leftwing fanatics. Many Leftists have also claimed another great French man, namely Alexis de Tocqueville. No sane man can side with anti-freedom collectivists' nonsense. Period.
chasbottom: Doubtful the reperees will care, they'll be living large somewhere in the Caribbean.
"The American republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public’s money" – Alexis De Tocqueville.
Christo50177945: We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
Alexis de Tocqueville
agirlnamedMary: "Americans don't need books because they already have Twitter" –Alexis de Tocqueville, basically
m2h2ay: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
feeonline: "Defending rights against the encroachments of the government saves the common liberties of the country."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
HannahArendt00: “It is instructive to remember that the greatest work on the role of religion in American political life was written by a Frenchman who was a devoted student of Rousseau: Alexis de Tocqueville. Since then we have been groping in the dark.”
- Mark Lilla, The Stillborn God
Siriuslyhadit: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” …Alexis de Tocqueville
aaipae: Alexis de Tocqueville on Trial by Jury
The jury ‘Is both the most effective way of establishing the people’s rule and the most efficient way of teaching them to rule’
illaim: If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, he would no doubt comment on the common euphemisms used to denote and describe Black & White Americans.
Billanthropy1: "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." …Alexis de Tocqueville
sinajoh84594131: The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.,Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,assumptions, bias, conventional-wisdom, culture, prejudice,
SchattigeDer: Anyone know to what extent Strauss discussed Tocqueville? This book review says the Straussians misread him:
acciard2022: "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle"
-Alexis De Tocqueville
4321jrt: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” …Alexis de Tocqueville
GoFaithstrong: The incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the human heart. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
PawncawPope: “Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Nichola01328461: Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.,Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America,assumptions, conventional-wisdom, culture, habit, parenthood
Ledotion2389: 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.,Alexis de Tocqueville,Equality, Men, Control ,
GhettoiChildren: “History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” –Alexis de Tocqueville
DimeOpinions: "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
Alexis de Tocqueville
_Shiv_16: The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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