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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville bol francúzsky politik a historik, predstaviteľ filozofie štátu a spoločnosti.

✵ 29. júl 1805 – 16. apríl 1859   •   Ďalšie mená Visconte Alexis de Tocqueville, Алексис де Токвиль
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„Jednoznačne smerujeme k demokracii, hoci netvrdím, že je to dobré. To čo vidím v tejto zemi (v USA), ma naopak presvedčuje, že tento politický systém sa pre Francúzsko nehodí. Tejto sile sa ale nedokážeme ubrániť a nič ju nedokáže zastaviť, a ak, tak iba nakrátko.“

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O sile , O demokracii

„Najnebezpečnejšia chvíľa pre zlú vládu je v tedy, keď sa začne liberalizovať.“

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Alexis De Tocqueville: Citáty v angličtine

“If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.”

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Variant translation: Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.

“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.”

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Book One, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One

“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”

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Book Three, Chapter XI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”

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Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”

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Zdroj: Misattributed, P. J. O'Rourke, Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut‎ (1996), p. 227.

“Born under another sky, placed in the middle of an always-moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which sweeps along everything that surrounds him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything; he grows accustomed to naught but change, and concludes by viewing it as the natural state of man; he feels a need for it; even more, he loves it: for instability, instead of occurring to him in the form of disasters, seems to give birth to nothing around him but wonders…”

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National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233 https://books.google.de/books?id=x9pnAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA233&q=ciel.
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Né sous un autre ciel, placé au milieu d'un tableau toujours mouvant, poussé lui-même par le torrent irrésistible qui entraîne tout ce qui l'environne, l'Américain n'a le temps de s'attacher à rien; il ne s'accoutume qu'au changement, et finit par le regarder comme l'état naturel à l'homme; il en sent le besoin; bien plus, il l'aime : car l'instabilité, au lieu de se produire à lui par des désastres, semble n'enfanter autour de lui que des prodiges...
1830s

“Égalité is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, " No one shall be better off than I am;" and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible.”

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Original text (incomplete): L'égalité est une expression d'envie. Elle signifie, dans le cœur de tout républicain : personne ne sera dans une meilleure situation que moi.[...]
Conversation with Nassau William Senior, 22 May 1850 Nassau, p. 94 http://books.google.com/books?id=KuzvHHBxuqgC&pg=PA94&vq=%22an+expression+of+envy%22&dq=tocqueville+william+nassau&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0
1850s and later
Varianta: Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIII.

“So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.”

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Original text: J'ai tant de sentiments et d'idées qui me sont communes avec les Anglais, que l'Angleterre est devenue pour moi une seconde patrie intellectuelle.
Voyages en Angleterre et en Irlande (Journeys to England and Ireland), 1835.
1830s

“Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVIII.

“"The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter IV.

“In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIV.

“No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.”

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Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX

“I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.”

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Book Two, Chapter I.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

“Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVIII.

“What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.”

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Book Three, Chapter XIX.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

“Commerce is naturally adverse to all the violent passions; it loves to temporize, takes delight in compromise, and studiously avoids irritation. It is patient, insinuating, flexible, and never has recourse to extreme measures until obliged by the most absolute necessity. Commerce renders men independent of each other, gives them a lofty notion of their personal importance, leads them to seek to conduct their own affairs, and teaches how to conduct them well; it therefore prepares men for freedom, but preserves them from revolutions.”

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Variant translation: Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”

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Said of Napoleon (1842), "Discours de réception a L'Académie Française prononcé le 21 Avril 1842" Oeuvres complètes, vol. IX, p. 17 http://books.google.com/books?id=kIsdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=%22Il+%C3%A9tait+aussi+grand+qu%E2%80%99un+homme+puisse+l%E2%80%99%C3%AAtre+sans+la+vertu%22
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Il était aussi grand qu'un homme puisse l'être sans la vertu.
1840s

“As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.”

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Variant translation: When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Book Four, Chapter VIII
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four

“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”

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Book Two, Chapter II.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.”

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Book Four, Chapter IV.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four

“There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”

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Book One, Chapter XIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One

“I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.”

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Book Three, Chapter XII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XXIX.

“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter X-XIV, Chapter XIV

“Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter I-V, Chapter III.

“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.

“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.”

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Zdroj: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XVII.

“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.”

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Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”

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Book Three, Chapter XVIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

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