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Form 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…
- Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to…
- As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You…
- 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…
- Socialism is a new form of slavery.
- Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of…
- The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of…
- There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone…
- Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at…
- However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him…
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.…
- 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…
- It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they…
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