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Sight Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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,…
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- 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…
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