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Times Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
- I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,…
- The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
- Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
- Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
- The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
- It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to…
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