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Schriftsteller, Politiker, "Über die Demokratie in Amerika", "Das Ancien-Regime und die Revolution" (Frankreich, 1805 - 1859).

Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville wäre heute 218 Jahre, 8 Monate, 22 Tage oder 79.889 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.07.1805 in Verneuil-sur-Seine
Gestorben am 16.04.1859 in Cannes
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Man muß mit seinen Feinden leben, da man nicht jedermann zum Freunde haben kann.

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• Nichts trägt mehr zum Erfolg bei als die Tatsache, daß man sich nicht allzusehr nach ihm sehnt.
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• Selbst die Despoten leugnen nicht, daß die Freiheit etwas Herrliches sei, nur daß sie für sich allein alle ihre Segnungen beanspruchen und behaupten, daß alle anderen Menschen so hoher Güter durchaus unwürdig seien.
  • Freiheit
  • Mensch(en)

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• Was wir zu fürchten haben, ist nicht die Unmoral der großen Männer, sondern die Tatsache, daß Unmoral oft zu Größe führt.

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• Wer in der Freiheit etwas anderes als sie selber sucht, ist zur Knechtschaft geboren.
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• America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement . . . No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes, what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.

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• Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked. The notion of labor is therefore presented to the mind, on every side, as the necessary, natural, and honest condition.

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• Amongst democratic nations, each generation is a new people.

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• Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

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• Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.

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• Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is altogether unworthy of it.

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• Freedom alone substitutes from time to time for the love of material comfort more powerful and more lofty passions; it alone supplies ambition with greater objectives than the acquisition of riches, and creates the light that makes it possible to see and to judge the vices and virtues of mankind.

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• He who desires in liberty anything other than itself is born to be a servant.

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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• I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.

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• If I were asked . . . to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people (Americans) ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: to the superiority of their women.

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• In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

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• It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth. Here it is that humanity achieves for itself both perfection and brutalization, that civilization produces its wonders, and that civilized man becomes again almost a savage.

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• It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution . . . The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform.

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• Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

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