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I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  1. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  2. Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  3. everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
  4. A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  5. 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
  6. The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. 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
  12. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  13. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  14. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  15. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
  16. 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
  17. In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  18. 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
  19. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  20. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  21. 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
  22. America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  23. nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  24. 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
  25. In a way, she’d rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust. – Brandon Sanderson
  26. He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
  27. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. – EM Forster
  28. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
  29. A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  30. You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability – Israelmore Ayivor
  31. True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation’s ways of justice. – Robert McAfee Brown
  32. It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
  33. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
  34. Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help… And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don’t always serve it. – Susanna Kearsley
  35. I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians. – Craig Ferguson
  36. Better mistrust undeserved than rash words. – JRR Tolkien
  37. A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles. – Pawan Mishra
  38. when there is a bit mistrust, jealousy will arise and ended with misunderstanding – Tun Teja
  39. Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust – Paul Babicki
  40. …You say you don’t mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom – Hell is paved with priests’ skulls…. – John Geddes

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