Quote #40
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
More from Alexis de Tocqueville
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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- Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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- Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
- I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southe…
- Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: 'Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.'
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, e…