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It's not an endlessly expandin...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

When an American asks for the ...

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

A newspaper is an adviser who ...

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In the United States, there is...

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Christianity is the companion ...

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 390 quotes

Among the laws controlling hum...

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I do not find fault with equal...

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Consider any individual at any...

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Equality is a slogan based on ...

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 390 quotes

The evil which one suffers pat...

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I have always noticed in polit...

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I know of no other country whe...

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Better use has been made of as...

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Americans of all ages, all sta...

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Can it be believed that the de...

Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

As for me, I am deeply a democ...

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... socialism is a new form of slavery.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The will of the nation is one ...

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

The character of Anglo-America...

The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

I see no clear reason why the ...

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

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I considered mores to be one o...

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 390 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....