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.
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“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.”
—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)