Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

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A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

Joan Lunden

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Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

John Ortberg

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I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Matthew Lewis

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I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset.

Anna Kendrick

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We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Ann Romney

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The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

Stephen Hawking

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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Stevie Wonder

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When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I'm middle-aged; it's fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.

Tom Hollander

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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

Robert Dale Owen

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My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

Mike Pompeo

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People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

Miriam Margolyes

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Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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