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State Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
- 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…
- 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…
- The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white…
- The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature;…
- 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…
- Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are…
- We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
- Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,…
- The great advantage of the American is that he has arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution and that…
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