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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Alexis de Tocqueville quotes about life

French Historian July 29, 1805 – April 16, 1859

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What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps,... Alexis de Tocqueville
The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits of mind. As they perceive that they succeed in resolving without assistance all the little difficulties which their practical life presents, they readily conclude that everything in the world may be explained, and that nothing in it transcends the limits of the understanding. Thus they fall to denying what they cannot comprehend; which leaves them but... Alexis de Tocqueville
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedomless necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville
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
Alexis de Tocqueville quote: "Life is to be entered upon with courage."
Life is to be entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville quote: "The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance,..."
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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