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If men are to remain civilize...

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Men will never establish any e...

Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented. Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Life is to be entered upon wit...

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

As the past has ceased to thro...

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

So many of my thoughts and fee...

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 390 quotes

Even despots accept the excell...

Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that no one else is at all worthy of it. Thus, our opinion
of liberty does not reveal our differences but the relative value which we place on our fellow man. 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.

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When an opinion has taken root...

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it.
'Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking
great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.

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General ideas are no proof of ...

General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

They all attributed the peacef...

They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not
meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

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There is one universal law tha...

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

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The regime which is destroyed ...

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

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Physical strength therefore is...

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

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America is great because she i...

America is great because she is good.

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Men are not corrupted by the e...

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

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He who seeks freedom for anyth...

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The best laws cannot make a co...

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I know without needing to hear...

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Remember that life is neither ...

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

A man's admiration for absolut...

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

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everybody feels the evil, but ...

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

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