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Thought Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes…
- Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
- Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time…
- I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
- By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be…
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