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Living Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at…
- Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
- 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…
- Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.
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