Alexis de Tocqueville

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Alexis de Tocqueville was born on this day in 1805.

Tocqueville, Democracy and Revolution | History Today

Irene Coltman Brown provides an insight into Tocqueville, who, reflecting on the history of revolutionary France, thought that liberty alone was capable of struggling successfully against revolution.

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