Alexis de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analysed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
He described America exceptional but by observation it wasn't just anything that made America different, it was Americas focus on God.
Tocqueville wrote:
"Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention;
and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things, to which I was unaccustomed.
In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions.
But in America, I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country ..."
His views on democracy had first hand saw why America was exceptional as God was in the center and built around was a Constitutional Republic. He also warned his readers of this advice below.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
He described America exceptional but by observation it wasn't just anything that made America different, it was Americas focus on God.
Tocqueville wrote:
"Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention;
and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things, to which I was unaccustomed.
In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions.
But in America, I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country ..."
His views on democracy had first hand saw why America was exceptional as God was in the center and built around was a Constitutional Republic. He also warned his readers of this advice below.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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