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People Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
- When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
- The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been…
- When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it,…
- In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with…
- 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…
- Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a…
- 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…
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- 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…
- The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of…
- Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
- Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach...
- 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…
- Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting…
- I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power…
- 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,…
- The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything…
- In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of…
- Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the…
- Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
- There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
- The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
- I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be…
- I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle