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Almost Always Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
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- To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. — Michael Bloomberg
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence… — Albert Camus
- Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran
- I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is… — Roger Angell
- Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers
- Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and thus do… — Joyce Meyer
- The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau
- We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. — Luc de Clapiers