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"24 Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 29 July 1805 | Aristocrat | Diplomat | Political scientist | Historian |

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Great revolutions The presence Blacks
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

So enamored Equality Slavery Freedom
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Democracy Socialism Common One word
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

No country The world Be provided The laws
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Life Be entered upon With courage
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Liberty Be established Morality Faith
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

Loved freedom Believe All times Worship it
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Language Strongest Most durable Unite mankind
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Central government Worship uniformity Relieves Inquiry
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Dangerous Violence employed Well-meaning people
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Society Endangered Great profligacy A few
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort

Any individual Any period His life Preoccupied
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In politics Shared hatreds Friendships
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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.

Most important Democracy Great fortunes Same hands
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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Close inspection Religion Not fear Absolute government.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave

The man Freedom Born A slave
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Past Illuminate The future Spirit walks
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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
More wonderful Being free Harder Learn
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune

The happy Powerful Into exile Surer guarantees
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Two things Democratic people Very difficult War
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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.

We succeed In enterprises Demand Positive qualities
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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.

Everybody feels Evil Has courage Seek
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Christianity The companion Its conflicts Divine source
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Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Society Nothing united Common envy
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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes & Sayings