Alexis de
Tocqueville, Democracy in America I (1835).I.VIII.22 ("Why the federal system is not practicable for all nations, and how the Anglo-Americans were enabled to adopt it"),
trans. Henry Reeve, with revisions by Francis Bowen and Phillips Bradley ((New
York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), vol. 1, p. 166; Œuvres,
ed. André Jardin (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), II (De la démocratie en
Amérique), ed. Jean-Claude Lamberti and James T. Schleifer (Paris: Éditions
Gallimard, 1992), 185.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
"A false notion which is clear and precise will always have more power in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved."
Alexis de
Tocqueville, Democracy in America I (1835).I.VIII.22 ("Why the federal system is not practicable for all nations, and how the Anglo-Americans were enabled to adopt it"),
trans. Henry Reeve, with revisions by Francis Bowen and Phillips Bradley ((New
York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), vol. 1, p. 166; Œuvres,
ed. André Jardin (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), II (De la démocratie en
Amérique), ed. Jean-Claude Lamberti and James T. Schleifer (Paris: Éditions
Gallimard, 1992), 185.
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