54 Quotations by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 21. In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape ...
- 22. In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- 23. In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the u ...
- 24. It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, begin ...
- 25. It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses contr ...
- 26. It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such ...
- 27. Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- 28. Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- 29. No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- 30. Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their des ...
- 31. Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealt ...
- 32. Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is not ...
- 33. Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, i ...
- 34. The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that ...
- 35. The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term den ...
- 36. The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to ...
- 37. The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather ...
- 38. The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more ...
- 39. The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
- 40. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive tast ...
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