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Institutions Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately…
- Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions
- 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…
- There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a…
- [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
- Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
- 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…
- Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher
- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions… — Ruth Benedict
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
- Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam… — Lewis Black
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake