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- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,…
- Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each…
- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
- The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen,…
- However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him…
- 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…
- I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which…
- The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon…
- What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily…
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without…
- No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and…
- 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…
- Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.
- The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;…
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