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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote
 | Source/Notes: Notes for a Speech on Socialism (1848) |
| “As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?” ―Alexis de Tocqueville Source/Notes: Letter to Ernest de Chabrol, 9 June 1831 Tocqueville Reader, p. 41 |
| “As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.” ―Alexis de Tocqueville Source/Notes: Variant translation: When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840) |
| “Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” ―Alexis de Tocqueville Source/Notes: Paraphrase. Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Ch. III, Part 1 |
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Born: July 29, 1805
Died: April 16, 1859 (aged 53)
Nationality: French
Occupation: Historian
Bio: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies.
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