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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes



Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville - (6 quotes)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Copying category:

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Courage category:

Life is to be entered upon with courage. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Excellence category:

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Genius category:

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Innovation category:

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, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Alexis de Tocqueville - From the Problems category:

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. (Alexis de Tocqueville)