Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Alexis de Tocqueville quotes and sayings page 4 (historian). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 44 we have.
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.”
“He was as great as a man can be without morality.”
“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”
“The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.”
“In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.”
“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.”
“There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
“No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.”
“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.”
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