America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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- In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others – April Nichole
- Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder. – Christy Hall
- Life needs a constant change, minds needs the constant change, only thing that is permanent in the world is change. – Santosh Kalwar
- Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines. – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement. – Jeffrey Fry
- … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
- everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
- A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- 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
- Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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
- When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies. – Calvin Coolidge
- There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
- Just as the universe is in constant flux, so too are we in constant change, and we must accept that. – Stephen Richards
- Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders. – Amit Kalantri
- Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible. – Dejan Stojanovic
- You shouldn’t claim the land alone but also take on responsibilities and change the land – Sunday Adelaja
- If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant – Guy Delisle
- Relationships don’t remain constant, but are in a constant state of evolving, either positively or negatively. – Steven Redhead