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Alexis de Tocqueville has 263 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.
— Karl Hess
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
— Thomas Szasz
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I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
— Fisher Ames
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It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in…
— Mona Charen
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Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when…
— Thomas Paine
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I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become…
— Silvio Berlusconi
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the…
— Andrew Jackson
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I love liberty, I hate equality.
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps…
— Rand Paul
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It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be…
— Chuck Baldwin
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Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.
— Ludwig Borne
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