Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Gustave de Beaumont

Gustave de Beaumont Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

    • Source
    • Report...
I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

Gustave de Beaumont

Quote of the day

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade

Gustave de Beaumont

Gustave de Beaumont

Born: February 6, 1802
Died: March 31, 1866 (aged 64)
Bio: Comte Gustave Auguste Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont was a French magistrate, prison reformer, and travel companion to the famed philosopher and politician Alexis de Tocqueville.
Known for:
  1. Ireland

WikipediaGustave de Beaumont on Wikipedia
Gutenberg ProjectGustave de Beaumont works on Gutenberg Project

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

French Politician Quotes
Politician Quotes
19th-century Politician Quotes

Related Authors

Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville
French Historian

Francis Lieber
Francis Lieber
German Philosopher

Featured Authors

Franklin D. RooseveltCarl JungRaymond ChandlerMarilyn MonroeJean-Paul SartreVolodymyr ZelenskyWarren BuffettMarco PoloJohn LockeMontesquieuVirginia WoolfWilliam Faulkner

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes