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Quotes by Alexis De Tocqueville
- I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
- In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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