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Ages Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
- The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
- In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict…
- Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is…
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
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- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
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- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. — Henry Ward Beecher
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan