Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Alexis de Tocqueville quotes and sayings page 3 (historian). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 44 we have.
“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”
“Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.”
“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
“The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.”
“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.”
“In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
“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.”
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