I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome t
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Alexis de Tocqueville quotes
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There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his persona
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We must watch the infant in his mother's arms; we must see the first images which the external world casts upon the dark mirror of
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles.
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them fro
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid a
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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 He
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In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One nev
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