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United States 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…
- It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their…
- In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.
- 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…
- What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
- [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
- 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,…
- In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
- The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;…
- In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of…
- The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;…
- In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the…
- There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
- In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does…
- I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be…
More United States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann
- When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks… — Michele Bachmann