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End Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
- In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,…
- Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
- The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything…
- Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the…
- In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
- There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
- Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that…
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