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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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Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority…
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Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia.…
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing…
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