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Men living in democratic times...

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

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Slavery...dishonors labor. It ...

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

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European Christianity has allo...

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

[R]eligion cannot share the ma...

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In politics a community of hat...

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Men will not receive the truth...

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends....

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

There is hardly a congressman ...

There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

It is from the midst of this p...

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

What is understood by republic...

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Of all nations, those submit t...

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The civil jury is the most eff...

The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.

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A French observer is surprised...

A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

By obliging men to turn their ...

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The foremost or indeed sole co...

The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The only authors whom I acknow...

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

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The position of the Americans ...

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 390 quotes

I have no hesitation in saying...

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

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The first who attracts the eye...

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

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In America a woman loses her i...

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

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However energetically society ...

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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