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Few Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions…
- When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has…
- I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as…
- Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
- History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
- History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V…
- It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to…
- Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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