"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
✒️ #AlexisdeTocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, passed away #OTD 16 April 1859. #History #Literature #Politics
No es la inmoralidad de los grandes hombres lo que debería infundirnos temor, sino más bien el hecho de que sea ésta la que, con tanta frecuencia, permita a los hombres alcanzar la grandeza.
Alexis de Tocqueville
#AlexisdeTocqueville #pensadoresfranceses #historiadores
“The universality of #money in the #UnitedStates is something that Europeans find fascinating,” he said, noting it was the same way going all the way back to the 1840s and the travel writings of the Frenchman #AlexisdeTocqueville.” fortune.com/2025/11/20/d...
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends.
- #AlexisdeTocqueville, ‘ #Democracy in America’
A great cartoon by @mwuerker.bsky.social - Lots of beautiful details - The #art of an #editorial #cartoon on #MAGA #madness and the new (and also very abhorrent) American Exceptionalism - #America #US #AlexisdeTocqueville
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 264: #ParrotAndOlivierInAmerica by #PeterCarey
#OlivierDeGarmont (a character inspired by #AlexisDeTocqueville) is a young #French aristocrat traveling to #America with his secretary, Parrot.
A reflection on #American #democracy but also a tale of #friendship.
“Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism.”
#AlexisDeTocqueville #literarybirthdays
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
#AlexisDeTocqueville #literarybirthdays
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
#AlexisDeTocqueville #literarybirthdays
#ThéodoreChassériau (1819–1856)
Portrait of #AlexisdeTocqueville (1805-1859), who was #BornOnThisDay
1850
Château de Versailles
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“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
✒️ #AlexisDeTocqueville, French aristocrat, statesman, political philosopher, historian, and author (Democracy in America), was #BOTD 29 July 1805. #Politics
A tour of the past
My review of Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America #AlexisDeTocqueville #DemocracyinAmerica #PrimarySources #UShistory
History Book Reviews: WELCOME TO THE 1830s…
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"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
✒️ #AlexisdeTocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, passed away #OTD 16 April 1859. #History #Literature #Politics
Pensando un poco, para pensar un poco más:
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Here are the 6 most important points from the page: * **Civil society's role**: Alexis de Tocqueville observed that civil society, comprising groups outside of government, plays a crucial role in shaping and sustaining culture in the United States. * **The Nazi's strategy**: Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party exploited this concept by seeking to control civil society through a policy called **Gleichschaltung**, or "coordination," which aimed to bring all aspects of society into line with Nazi ideology. * **Gleichschaltung in action**: The Nazis successfully coordinated civil society groups, including veterans' associations, shooting clubs, and churches, by imposing their ideology and control over these organizations. * **Hitler's rise to power**: Hitler's party rose to power in Germany by capitalizing on economic turmoil and people's base appetites, such as power and revenge, and by crafting a narrative that blamed villainous groups for Germany's problems. * **The Enabling Act**: After Hitler became Chancellor, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which granted him almost unfettered power to deal with enemies of the state and the economic crisis. * **The ease of Gleichschaltung**: The Nazi's ability to coordinate civil society and impose their ideology was surprisingly easy, with only seven laws passed by the Reichstag and 986 laws enacted unilaterally by Hitler's government. Here are some relevant hashtags based on the content of the page: * #Gleichschaltung * #Nazification * #CivilSociety * #Totalitarianism * #Fascism * #Hitler * #NaziParty * #ThirdReich * #AlexisDeTocqueville * #Democracy * #CultureWar
* #Gleichschaltung
* #Nazification
* #CivilSociety
* #Totalitarianism
* #Fascism
* #Hitler
* #NaziParty
* #ThirdReich
* #AlexisDeTocqueville
* #Democracy
* #CultureWar
Nothing was revealed about America that #AlexisDeTocqueville didn’t already describe during the Jackson Administration.
That is in the #history books which will be banned, shortly.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville was born in Paris #OnThisDay in 1805; #AlexisDeTocqueville is remembered today for his trenchant observations on "#DemocracyInAmerica" but #Tocqueville also served as a government minister in #France:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_...
