Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.- 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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All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know. ― Osamu Dazai

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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. - 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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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -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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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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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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