Tocqueville Sentence Examples

Algeria contains important deposits of phosphorite, especially near Tebessa and at Tocqueville in the province of Constantine.

Tocqueville has pointed out that already before the revolution of 1789 the greater part of the territory of France was in the hands of small peasant owners, and modern researches have confirmed Tocqueville's estimate.

Alexis de Tocqueville was brought up for the bar, or rather for the bench, and became an assistant magistrate in 1830.

It was at once caught up by influential members of the Liberal party in England, which country Tocqueville soon after visited, and where he married an Englishwoman.

During the last twenty years of his life, and for perhaps half that time after his death, Tocqueville had an increasing European fame.

Without being a notable traveller, he spent much time in the chief intellectual centres of Europe, and in the United States, and numbered among his friends such men as Montalembert, De Tocqueville, Fustel de Coulanges, Bluntschli, von Sybel and Ranke.

This visit resulted in the publication in the Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 (see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876) .

After touring the United States for more than nine months in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville returned to his native France and penned the two-volume Democracy in America.

That notwithstanding, de Tocqueville's "voluntary associations" are still alive and well in the United States.

It is a shame that de Tocqueville's voluntary associations aren't more prominent around the world today—but in the future, they may be.

De Tocqueville would be impressed.

In the United States, de Tocqueville's voluntary associations still do the job and anyone willing to make her way to a church or food pantry and say she is hungry will not leave empty handed.

So did de Tocqueville, touring nineteenth-century America, when he wrote that "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."