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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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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have…
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The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New…
— Alex Jones
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When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise…
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world,…
— Walter Russell
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked…
— Camille Paglia
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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's…
— Christopher Hitchens
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You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American…
— Cynthia Carroll
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I feel Anglo-American.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying,…
— Unknown Author
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