The Alexis de Tocqueville award can refer to a number of awards named after the prominent Frenchman who wrote Democracy in America. The current known awards include:
- The Alexis de Tocqueville award awarded by the Independent Institute
- The Alexis de Tocqueville Award for Excellence in Advancement of Educational Freedom awarded by the Alliance for the Separation of School & State
- The Alexis de Tocqueville award awarded by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, an institute accused of using research to get results predefined by its sponsors.
Famous quotes containing the words alexis de tocqueville, alexis de, tocqueville and/or award:
“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise to it.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)