History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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If men are to remain civilized, or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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