Quotes Tagged With :1840

Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France....

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government....

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to....

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste....

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased....

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which....

Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they....

In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great....

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little....

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy,....