consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the
whole world in which the christian religion retains a greater
influence over men than in America, and there can be no greater proof
of its utility"
On Mar 5, 6:22 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> New post on *Fellowship of the Minds*
> <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/stungunsandmace/> Today's
> History lesson. Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de
> Tocqueville<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/todays-history-less...>by
> Steve <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/stungunsandmace/>
>
> [image: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de
> Tocqueville]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/220px-alexis_de_...>
>
> Wiki has this to say.
>
> *Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de
> Tocqueville<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>
> * (French pronunciation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phonology>:
> [alɛksi or alɛksis də tɔkvil]; 29 July 1805, Paris <http://www.paris.fr/> –
> 16 April 1859, Cannes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes>) was a French
> political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in
> America<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America>(appearing
> in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The
> Old Regime and the
> Revolution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution>(1856).
> In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising
> equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western
> societies. Democracy in America (1835), his major work, published after his
> travels in the United States, is today considered an early work of
> sociology and political science.
> More HERE!!! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville>
>
> *I always thought Jefferson could see what was down the road for us. But
> this man de Tocqueville really had his eye on it too. Here are just a few
> quotes with link for many more quotes.*
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Liberty
> cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America "Men cannot abandon
> their religious
> faith <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith> without a kind of aberration of
> intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are
> invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident,
> and faith is the only permanent state of mankind."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville "What good does it do me, after all, if an
> ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will
> be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the
> need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes
> the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and
> my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that
> when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it
> sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also
> perish? "
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville "We can state with conviction, therefore, that a
> man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the
> contempt he feels for his country."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville "The American
> Republic<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,...>will
> endure until the day
> Congress <http://www.house.gov/> discovers that it can bribe the public
> with the public's money."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
> "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good,
> America will cease to be great."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville "Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to
> that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that
> peoples should scorn public peace <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace>, but
> neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that
> asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave
> in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the
> man who will put it in chains."
> ― Alexis de Tocqueville More quotes
> here!!!!<http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/465.Alexis_de_Tocqueville>
>
> *~Steve~*
>
> *Steve <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/stungunsandmace/>* |
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