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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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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is…
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Easy believeism dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar. We must alter the altar, for the altar is a place to die…
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Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.
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The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Anything less than your best dishonors God
— Francine Rivers
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The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists…
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