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Some Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations…
- One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
- Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
- But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small…
- However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him…
- I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,…
- [R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.
- The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a…
- No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and…
- 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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