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Less 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…
- It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
- In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,…
- In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is…
- If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be…
- It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and…
- In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does…
- 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 must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
- 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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