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Necessary Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- 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.…
- Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
- When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
- It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be…
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