He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- 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.
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
- 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.
- Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
- 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.
- 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.
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- 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.
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