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Long Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
- When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,…
- I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
- Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
- When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
- 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…
- On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be…
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