54 Quotations by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 41. The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
- 42. The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of th ...
- 43. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time o ...
- 44. The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
- 45. There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advan ...
- 46. There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and ...
- 47. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember ...
- 48. This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully ...
- 49. Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
- 50. Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not t ...
- 51. Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, ...
- 52. Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange sta ...
- 53. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those whic ...
- 54. When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, i ...
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