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? -Alexis de Tocqueville

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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - 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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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. - Heraclitus

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I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites. -Marsha P. Johnson

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

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Life is to be entered upon with courage. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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