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
- The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
- The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
- History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
- Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- 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.
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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