Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If you're too dangerous to buy an airplane ticket, you're too dangerous to buy an assault weapon. And, when we talk about the Second Amendment - I support the Second Amendment - but the Second Amendment was created and designed to prevent tyranny and not to encourage terror.

Jim Gray

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Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

Mel Gibson

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No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Jean-Louis Trintignant

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I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

Michael Chabon

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To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.

Rodney Crowell

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I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Mike Leigh

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I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Dennis Brown

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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

David Viscott

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I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Christopher Hitchens

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At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

Brendon Burchard

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Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

Bob Beckel

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All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

Alice Ripley

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