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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In America, the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
If I were asked... To what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people [the Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or an accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones: few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free? (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)