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Nations Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
- A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
- Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
- Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.
- Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
- Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
- Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
- There are at the present time two great nations in the world allude to the Russians and the Americans All other nations seem to have…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations… — Franklin P. Adams
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn
- For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount… — Robert Benchley
- God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a… — Benazir Bhutto
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake