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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Threaten
Property
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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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Drama
Remember
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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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Complaint
Indian
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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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Sooner
Turn
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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. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Perplexed
Happen
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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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Satisfaction
Superior
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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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Discussion
Converse
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democratic
Endanger
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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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Liberties
Surest
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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People
Second
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Spirit
Illuminates
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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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Originals
Pictures
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Morality
Established
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Principle
Parties
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Themselves
Despise
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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? - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Americans
Question
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democratic
Tax
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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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Difficult
Revolution
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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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Revolutionary
Passed
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. - Alexis de Tocqueville
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Greatness
Enlightened
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