When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- Life is to be entered upon with courage.
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- 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.
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