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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Government Tax Escape Vote

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

Place Movies Over Whatever Did

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

Keep Going People Forward Look Back

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Plan Penny Tax Investment Will See

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

Funny Love You Way Taxes Well

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

Love Good Music Black Doing Punk

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

Life Soul Finding Authenticity Real

When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.

Robert Kiyosaki

Love Football Listening Game Talking

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Change War Think Problem Meeting

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Science Literature Always Modern

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Culture I Am American Values Know

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

Eyes King Mind Doing I Can Play

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Alone Great Look Statistics I Can

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