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War Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
- 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…
- The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white…
- A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
- All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish…
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
- An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a…
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