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Alexis De Tocqueville
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answ ...
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used ...
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Life is to entered upon with courage
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking t ...
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for t ...
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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