French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
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A French aristocrat who went to America in the 1830s and wrote the book that still defines how people argue about democracy — what it promises, what it threatens, and whether the majority can be trusted with power.
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville, was born 29 July 1805 into a noble family that had survived the Revolution's turmoil. He traveled to the United States in the early 1830s, and the two volumes that followed — Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840 — became an early landmark of sociology and political science, dissecting how individuals related to markets and states in Western societies. He served in French politics under the July Monarchy and the Second Republic after the February 1848 Revolution, a classical liberal skeptical of majoritarianism's extremes, drifting…
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Men sometimes submit to shame, to tyranny, to conquest, but they never long suffer anarchy. There is no people so barbarous that they escape this general law of humanity
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety.
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed.
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