Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
3 quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville (died 1859), taken from Democracy in America. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Democracy in America
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“We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.”
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“In democracies no great benefits are conferred, but good offices are constantly rendered.”
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“When the American retires from the turmoil of public life to the bosom of his family, he finds in it the image of order and of peace.”