Alexis De Tocqueville
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (; 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). In both of these works, he analysed the rising living standards and social conditions of individuals and their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
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... Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press 2011) 698 pages Includes previously ... De la démocratie en Amerique (1835/1840)—Democracy in America ... English language versions Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans ...
... Alexis de Tocqueville (France, 1805–1859) Some literature De La Démocratie en Amérique, 1831–1840 (Democracy in America, ) L'Ancien Régime et la Révoluti ...
... The Alexis de Tocqueville award can refer to a number of awards named after the prominent Frenchman who wrote Democracy in America ... The current known awards include The Alexis de Tocqueville award awarded by the Independent Institute The Alexis de Tocqueville Award for Excellence in Advancement of Educational Freedom ...
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“It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)