Alexis de Tocqueville on country
Alexis de Tocqueville70 quotes“America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.”
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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.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville America is great because she is good.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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