People Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville Download Open image “When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.” — Alexis de Tocqueville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Rebellion Revolution States
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
