Quotes About Unity

It's a law that shared burdens are lighter, and a weight that would crush two who are alone could be borne by two united.

Athos, at the twenty-seventh the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first the name of Aramis.

Generalmente - diceva - si chiedono consigli solo per non seguirli; oppure, se si seguono, solo per avere qualcuno da rimproverare per averli dati». Porthos giunse un istante dopo d'Artagnan. I quattro amici si ritrovavano dunque riuniti. I quattro volti esprimevano quattro sentimenti diversi: quello di Porthos la tranquillità, quello di d'Artagnan la speranza, quello di Aramis l'inquietudine e quello di Athos l'indifferenza.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.

THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS

replied d'Artagnan

The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.

Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism

Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a social body does not. Thus in order that there be society, and all the more, that this society prosper, it is necessary that all the minds of the citizens always be brought together and held together by some principle ideas

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.

The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them.

During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, whilst the people are merely a spectator of the conflict: in America, he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Ainsi donc, en s'alliant à un pouvoir politique, la religion augmente sa puissance sur quelques-uns, et perd l'espérance de régner sur tous.

In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

All men being equally weak, each would feel equally in need of his fellow man's support and, knowing that cooperation was the condition of that support, would readily see that his private interest was subsumed in the general interest.

In order that society should exist, and a fortiori, that a society should prosper, it is required that all the minds of the citizens should be rallied and held together by certain predominant ideas...

Pour ma part, je ne saurais concevoir qu'une nation puisse vivre ni surtout prospérer sans une forte centralisation gouvernementale. Mais je pense que la centralisation administrative n'est propre qu'à énerver les peuples qui s'y soumettent, parce qu'elle tend sans cesse à diminuer parmi eux l'esprit de cité.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.

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The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. I am therefore led to conclude that the right of association is almost as inalienable as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the very foundations of society.