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Results of search for Author: Alexis de Tocqueville - Page 1 of 1
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)

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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)

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There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America 1835
This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.: Alexis DeTocqueville
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville

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