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Firsts Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions
- The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment…
- Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.
- 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…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
- The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;…
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome…
- 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…
- Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they…
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