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Means Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately…
- It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their…
- I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
- One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish…
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
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