1. De Tocqueville was an acute observer of American ways.

2. We might like to speculate how Jefferson or Tocqueville, Orwell or Bonhoeffer might respond to these extraordinary words.

3. Citizen de Tocqueville: There, gentlemen, is Baboeuf's program.

4. How does Tocqueville distinguish between governmental and administrative centralization?

5. Citizen de Tocqueville: No, gentlemen. Democracy and socialism are not interdependent concepts.

6. Citizen de Tocqueville (turning toward the left): It might, perhaps become so, if you allow it to happen, [much approval] but it will not.

7. As Alexis de Tocqueville noted long ago, in America, nearly all important issues ultimately become judicial questions.

8. Tocqueville regarded tyranny of the majority as the greatest threat to liberty in America.

9. A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct species of mankind."

10. De Tocqueville , much as he admired the United States, found this patriotism irritating.

11. After Tocqueville’s death, Beaumont edited his works, and one could say of him that he was as true a friend as he knew how.

12. AMERICA is the country, said Alexis de Tocqueville, where the bonds of marriage are most respected and the concept of connubial bliss "has its highest and truest expression.

13. Alexis de Tocqueville offered an original explanation on the cause of the French revolution in terms of historical sociology.

14. In his book, Tocqueville contrasted the fates in America of blacks and Indians, the former enslaved by democratic prejudice and the latter cheated in unfair treaties by democratic hypocrisy.

15. Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French chronicler of early America, was once misquoted as having said: "America is the best country in the world to be poor."

16. What Tocqueville found in Jacksonian America resonates anew in our own time, and Damrosch's engaging account of a world at once remote and familiar is invaluable—and entertaining.

17. Citizen de Tocqueville: That is what the February Revolution must be, neither more nor less.

18. Tocqueville thought America to be singular quite apart from the favorable circumstances permitting it to grow and flourish on its own without much interference from Europe.

19. There are certainly echoes of this reading of Aristotle as a teacher of participatory republican government in the later writings of democratic thinkers from Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt.

20. To see the difference between a genius and a non-genius one could begin with the difference between Tocqueville, who wrote a great book, and his friend Beaumont, who wrote a mediocre one.

20. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

21. Antielitism is a cancer waiting to metastasize in any democracy and one that Alexis de Tocqueville worried about for the U.S.

22. Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.

23. As a prominent political thinker and historian in nineteenth—century France, Alexis de Tocqueville has been extensively studied internationally in diverse research fields after the Second World War.

24. Because in any argument of any kind, elites always quote Tocqueville.