Article: Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life.(Book review)

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life

By Hugh Brogan

(Yale UP, 2007)

736 pp.; $35.00

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The democratic will is volatile; its agents, vulgar; its laws, imperfect. I admit all this. But if it is true that soon there will be no middle way between the empire of democracy and the yoke of one man, ought we not to try rather for the former than submit voluntarily to the latter? And if it were necessary to accept complete equality, would it not be better to allow ourselves to be leveled in liberty rather than under a despot?

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