Democracy in America

“I think that Democracy in America by Dtoqueville is still the best description of what America is and and in many ways ought to be.”

“The traditional American dream for most people was cross an ocean, go to a place you don't know. If that doesn't work, cross right, cross a mountain, build I mean Dville talks about this in democracy in America that that Americans were famous for for basically building these kind of ramshackle huts trying to set up shop and if it”

“And then when we read Democracy in America, it became even clearer what Tocqueville's project was...”

“What Tocqueville noticed, the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville, when he came to the United States before writing his great book, Democracy in America, was that Americans then, did not expect the government to solve their problems.”

“and you've got to read alexis the toefl democracy in america”

“And you're a fan of books, I see. Well, no. I'm a fan of scribbling in them. Like this is a book I bought with my dad, Democracy in America.”

“I'm a fan of scribbling in them. Like this is a book I bought with my dad, Democracy in America. If you haven't read it, you should read it. But you should scribble on every page of your books.”

“he said, "Look, excellent, excellent, highly recommended reading."”

“in actually in large part I think it comes in because of Toqueville's great book democracy in America best study of America ever”

“This gentleman, Alexis de Tocqueville, is very famous for writing a book about the last days of the French monarchy before the French Revolution overturned it. He also wrote something about Democracy in America, both excellent books.”

“Well, first of all, I think Toqueville's Democracy in America would be a good place to start. not going into it thinking of it as the iconic text, but going into it thinking about it as someone who is an observer from the outside looking in”

“so yeah de Tocqueville wrote this book what's it called on America yeah forget it was like early 19th century so french guy comes to america it's me on democracy man yeah yeah yeah”

“his master work is the two volume Democracy in America which he wrote after uh having a kind of extended stay and extended tour”

“You're like you know, I've I've I haven't even I have not read Alexis de Tocqueville's full Democracy in America. Sorry, sue me.”

“That's very tovillian. The the Alexis detoville when he wrote democracy in in America he said well this is what is going to make America great in in the 1830s is well and America's got that right with its 51 state or 50 state experiments.”

“One of the parts of your book I found interesting was your analysis of Alexis Dtoqueville's democracy in America. That's normally seen as a document laying out the early structure of America's inevitable ascent into liberal democracy.”

“So, um, you know, you got to hand at Donald Trump at least.”

“and then by 11 or 12 summer reading Democracy in America”

“So there were huge periods of time that we had very low immigration in this country, and if you actually read democracy in America by Tocqueville, he doesn’t mention the word immigrant or immigration even once in that book, the US is 2 percent foreign born at that time.”

“it was something that was remarked upon by dville when he wrote Democracy in America”

“And Alexis Detoqueville, the famous French philosopher, he came out here and he said that America is great because America is good. If America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. But he also said in Democracy in America that the true genius of these people of Americans that he was writing about are their ability to”

“I would attribute it my first encounter with Alexis Dtoqueville reading democracy in America.”

“I'd like to read you a couple sentences from Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville's mind-bogglingly interesting book written in the 1830s from the perspective of a French visitor. He wrote, they, Americans, have a lively faith in the perfectibility of man.”