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Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original ...more

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I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism...more

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Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

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It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the t...more

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The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of ...more

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A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; fina...more

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Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rig...more

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One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men fo...more

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Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy eithe...more

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Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one pe...more

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In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted equality of condi...more

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During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had...more

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The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is ...more

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Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less ...more