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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well being which men acquire in times of equality (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The French are... The most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
What most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the Earth (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them (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)
The French want no - one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)