No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- 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.
- 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.
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
- When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
- 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.
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- I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
- Umubi ukwitaho aruta umwiza ukwiryah‎o
- A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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