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«The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American civilization, coarse, denote, denotes, preserved, remote, rusticity, The Americans, unacquainted, unacquainted with, villager, villagers
«turn against themselves and consider their hopes as having been childish--their enthusiasm and, above all, their devotion absurd.»
«I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts.»
«For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?»
«With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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America and Americans
| Keywords:
fragments, maximum, township
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
energetically, escape from, inequality
«The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.»
«The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.»
«In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
disinterested, Human sacrifice, inflict, relieve
«In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, constraint, constraints, obligations, stricter, submits
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