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Quotes by Alexis De Tocqueville
- A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- 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 it.
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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