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Use Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else…
- Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- 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…
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- 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…
- Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
More Use Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood