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Alexis de Tocqueville's quotes

« I don't think that at no time slavery was useful to the life and welfare. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes)

« I admit that an unjust and intrusive Act at the sacred rights of humanity, can be justified by a reason of utility. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes, 1989)

« The French did in 1789 the greatest effort which is never delivered any people. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution, 1856)

« In democracies, each generation is a new people. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« There is only God that can safely be Almighty. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« If someone showed me complete independence and the entire subjugation of the thought a middle position where I could hope to keep me, I I have perhaps; but who will discover this intermediate position? »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique)

« This same equality that makes the independent individual to each of its citizens especially the book isolated and defenceless to the action of the greatest number. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« Men cannot have political freedom without buying it by a few sacrifices, and they never take with a lot of effort. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique)

« In politics, what there is often more difficult to appreciate and understand, is what is happening under our eyes. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« Need for a new political science to a whole new world. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« I think that there are honest resistance and legitimate rebellions. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« The idea of rights is another thing that the idea of virtue in the world political. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« It is with the idea of the rights that men have defined what the license and tyranny. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« The man who obeys violence folds and lowers. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« It is no great men without virtue; There is no great people without rights. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835)

« Sincere friend of America, I see slavery delay its progress, obscure his glory, supplying weapons to its opponents. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes, 1986)

« I hope to see the day where the law will ensure a civil equal freedom to all inhabitants of the empire. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes, 1986)

« I move me to the spectacle of the degradation of man by man. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Œuvres complètes,1986)

« In politics, the community of hatred is almost always the bottom of friendships. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Souvenirs)

« History is a gallery of paintings, where there are few originals and many copies. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution)

« Who seeks freedom another thing itself is designed to serve. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution)

« Do not despise the man in order to get from others and self-esteem of great efforts. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Correspondance)

« The French want to be equal, and when they don't find it in freedom, they want in slavery. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution)

« What a sad thing that throughout the world Governments are always precisely as naughty than the mores of their subjects can allow them to be. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Correspondance)

« Great men are passionate about little things, when corporations come to miss them. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (Correspondance)

« The most dangerous time for a bad government is usually where it starts to reform. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution)

« There is more light and wisdom in many men gathered in one. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« The greatest care of good Government should be used to it little by little people to spare him. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« What the vulgar call a waste of time is often of the time saved. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« The rule that is applicable to a man why not also to all others? »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« There is no freedom without morality, or morality without faith. »
Alexis de Tocqueville

« The slave is a servant who discusses point and submits to all without a murmur. Sometimes he murder his master but he can never resist. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (De la démocratie en Amérique)

« The bullies themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they want it for themselves, and they argue that all others are quite unworthy. »
Alexis de Tocqueville (L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution)

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