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Alexis de Tocqueville — Portrait after a picture by Théodore Chassériau (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs

1805–1859

39 quotes, most often on America, Democracy and Freedom.

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter III, Part I
- America
- Freedom
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four, Chapter VII.
- Freedom
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom’s self is made to be a slave.
The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), p. 204
- Freedom
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV.
- America
- Freedom
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XXII.
- Freedom
- War & Peace

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