Tag: Alexis de Tocqueville
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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