Love Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

20 Love quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis de Tocqueville offers a thoughtful look at love through 20 concise observations. His perspective, rooted in social analysis, brings a unique angle to how affection shapes and is shaped by the world around us.

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The world belongs to those with the most energy.

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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

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All around you everything is on the move,

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Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

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Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed…

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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

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“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.”

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I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is…

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In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man…

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No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,…

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I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to…

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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and…

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“The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise…

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“Man did not give himself the taste for the infinite and the love of what is immortal. These sublime instincts are not…

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws…

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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.…

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“It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are…

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather…

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I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have…

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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

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The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

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“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man…

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Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer…

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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of…

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On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation…

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“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

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