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- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
- It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
- Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
- The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a…
- It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and…
- The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;…
- Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,…
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