The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

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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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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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I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

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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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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

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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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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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