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"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."
"Greatness always inspires you to be great."
"Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality."
"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
Explore more quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
"Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States."
"Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, those who had anything united in common terror."
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
"Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents."
"Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive."
"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?"
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