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Almost Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has…
- The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show…
- When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,…
- I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
- I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,…
- It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
- The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white…
- A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
- The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment…
- The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature;…
- It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
- Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,…
- In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,…
- In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
- In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is…
- Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.
- In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be…
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