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Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs

1805–1859

39 quotes, most often on America, Democracy and Freedom.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XI.
- Money
- Morality
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Said of Napoleon (1842), “Discours de réception a L’Académie Française prononcé le 21 Avril 1842” Oeuvres complètes, vol. IX, p. 17
- Morality

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