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Other Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
- The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
- The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show…
- I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the…
- The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
- Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is…
- I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,…
- It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
- One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
- 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…
- There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great…
- By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
- 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…
- When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
- The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
- In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does…
- 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…
- It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
- In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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