French - Historian | July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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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 meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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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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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 Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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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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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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