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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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