De Tocqueville Democracy In America Quotes

#1. Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a rumor, faint and stale.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

James Webb Young

#4. Locals. They'll eventually get out. They're annoyed. Like when Americans go to the lake. And it's closed. 'Cause some kid pooped in the water.

Elle Lothlorien

#5. What kind of look are you going for?" he asked instead.
"Clothed.

J.R. Ward

#6. I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times?
If you can count them, he didn't drop you out.
Nadine groaned, shuddered, grinned. 'Bitch.

J.D. Robb

#8. Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

Ovid