Alexis de Tocqueville

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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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 (1805-1859)

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“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“Patriotism is most often nothing more but an extension of individual egoism”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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“patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of a body politic to one end.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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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 (1805-1859)

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“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country”

― Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)