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Letter "A" » Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
«America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
ceases
«The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.»
«There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democratic
«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»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Liberty,
Religion
| Keywords:
Americans, combine, combines, conceive, conceive of, intimately, notions, The Americans
«The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, congress, discovers, republic, The American
«When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, in darkness, Long Walk, walks
«I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
American Woman, dependent, domestic, due to, hesitation, in some respects, respects, sphere, station, superiority, With all due respect
«A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Words
| Keywords:
democratic government, obligation
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Socialism
| Keywords:
equality, in common, in restraint, restraint, servitude, socialism
«Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith»
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