Life is to be entered upon with courage.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- 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.
- In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
- Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
- But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
- Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
- You don't kill your way to peace.
- I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.