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Democratic Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
- I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately…
- I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores"…
- In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict…
- In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: 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…
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
- Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
- The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or…
- [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…
- Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
- Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
- Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
- The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
- Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
- A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
- 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…
- If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be…
- A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish…
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There… — Abu Bakar Bashir
- The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working… — Benazir Bhutto
- I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is… — Benazir Bhutto