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Nothing Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
- Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
- Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has…
- 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…
- Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much…
- In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;…
- Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to…
- Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in…
- Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they…
- Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that…
- Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
- Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
- Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original…
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