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Time Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- 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 should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
- On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces…
- 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…
- 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…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- 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…
- There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V…
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours…
- When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
- It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they…
- 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,…
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