54 Quotations by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 1. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur ...
- 2. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
- 3. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks t ...
- 4. As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the ...
- 5. Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the ...
- 6. By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art ...
- 7. Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
- 8. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escap ...
- 9. Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you wit ...
- 10. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- 11. However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the pe ...
- 12. I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the ...
- 13. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, ev ...
- 14. I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and ...
- 15. I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion ...
- 16. In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.
- 17. In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less co ...
- 18. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barri ...
- 19. In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are faction ...
- 20. In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United Sta ...
Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes by Power Quotations
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