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Alexis de Tocqueville has 263 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
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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 of his…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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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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Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever…
— Tommy Tune
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
— Tatyana Ali
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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America…
— Tavis Smiley
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No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support…
— Christopher Gadsden
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The national park is the best idea America ever had.
— James Bryce
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she…
— Will Rogers
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated…
— Oliver North
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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do,…
— Andy Warhol
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I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;…
— W. Cleon Skousen
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America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones.
— Koren Zailckas
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