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Quote DB :: Authors :: Alexis de Tocqueville :: View Quote View Quote "When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Alexis de Tocqueville Listed in: Time Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.33  Rate Quote 6 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 Time "It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned." "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." "Time makes more converts than reason."

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