French - Historian | July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
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