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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