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Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  1. There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  2. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
  3. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  4. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  5. In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  6. Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  7. everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
  8. A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  9. I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  12. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  13. Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  14. Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  15. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  16. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  17. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  18. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  19. What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  20. In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  21. Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  22. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  23. America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  24. nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  25. I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  26. Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
  27. You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  28. If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing. – Debasish Mridha
  29. Leaders unify nations by creating an external enemy, and nations make that dream comes true. – MF Moonzajer
  30. Great men learn from their weaknesses,and learn to use their strengths.Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses,and underuse their strengths. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth. – Criss Jami
  32. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn’t to be judged. Repeat the above each day. – Brittany Burgunder
  34. Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn. – Rico Dasheem
  35. Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel. – Vikrmn
  36. Work with great zeal. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  37. The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  38. Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. – Michel de Montaigne
  39. Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. – Charles W Colson
  40. the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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