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Alexis de Tocqueville has 263 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…
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A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
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Love is a tyrant sparing none.
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Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They…
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If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop…
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a…
— Andrew Johnson
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,…
— Robert Browning
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Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week…
— John Fletcher
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
— Edmund Waller
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
— Hilary Mantel
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that…
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