"The Indian knew how to live without wants,……" — Alexis de Tocqueville
"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
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257 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville has 257 quotes on this site.
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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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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But,…
— Kirstie Alley
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
— Van Jones
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this…
— Susan Ward
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
— Jonathan Swift
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