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Off Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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…
- Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
- Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
- By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
- A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
- When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
- What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and…
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