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Free Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it…
- In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
- Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
- Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
- The great advantage of the American is that he has arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution and that…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
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