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Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti poetic, as the life of a man in the United States (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights, or rights must be granted to no one (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill defined craving for independence (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I am of opinion that a central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the consequences of their errors (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
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 (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class (Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes)