5 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville about numbers

  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

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    If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

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  • Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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    When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

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    Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

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    It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

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