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Alexis de Tocqueville has 263 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his…
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have…
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…
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The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes…
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much,…
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Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its…
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
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Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to…
— David Lloyd George
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The great workman of nature is time.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
— Unknown Author
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or…
— Unknown Author
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Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets…
— Samuel Gompers
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I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
— Plutarch
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear…
— Plato
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,…
— Plato
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