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Raises Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
- 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…
- In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to…
- The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers…
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