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Quote DB :: Authors :: Alexis de Tocqueville :: View Quote View Quote "The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Alexis de Tocqueville Listed in: Government Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville "There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." "In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." "What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class." "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Top 5 quotes from Government "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry." "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." "Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government." "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."

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