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Work Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- 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 best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth,…
- The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
- I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
- 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…
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be…
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