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Country Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the…
- 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…
- I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be…
- Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
- Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much…
- There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a…
- America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
- [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
- 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;…
- In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
- Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
- The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below…
- 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 the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
- Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable,…
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does…
- We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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