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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
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I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term mores . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
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 necessity of forming opinions of their own. (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Alternative translation: In politics... Shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
All around you everything is on the move (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)