"The genius of democracies is seen not only……" — Alexis de Tocqueville
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
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257 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines,…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source…
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
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Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by…
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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources,…
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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism…
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