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Biography - Alexis de Tocqueville:

French diplomat, political scientist and historian.
Born: 1805 - Died: 1859
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.


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French
En politique, la communauté des haines fait presque toujours le fond des amitiés.




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Quotes for: friendship


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Quotes about friendship:


Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.





Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.











Quotes for: politics


Quotes

Quotes for: politics


Man is by nature a political animal.





Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.





Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.





In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





Politics have no relation to morals.











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Alexis de Tocqueville also said...


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.





The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.





Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.





What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.





The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.












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