The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others t… - Alexis de Tocqueville
" "The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.
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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America.
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Discovery attends on every quest,
Except for renegades who shirk the toil.
Now certain men have pushed discovery
Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know,—
How planets rise and set and wheel about,
And of the sun’s eclipse. If men have probed
Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth,
This common home to which we’re born, defy them?
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De la supériorité des mœurs sur les lois (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 286.
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