Tag: Alexis de Tocqueville
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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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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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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