Inspirational Quotes by Harvey Mansfield (American Political Philosopher)

Harvey Claflin Mansfield (b.1932) is an American political philosopher known for his conservative interpretations of political theory and scholarship on Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and executive power. He was a professor of government at Harvard University (1962–2023) and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Mansfield earned a B.A. (1953) and PhD (1961) from Harvard. He briefly taught at the University of California-Berkeley, before returning to Harvard, where he became one of its longest-serving faculty members.

Notable works include Machiavelli’s Virtue (1996) on Machiavelli’s philosophy, Manliness (2006) on gender and leadership, and A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy (2001) on key thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, and Locke. He also co-translated Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (2000) with Delba Winthrop.

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