A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. ― Terry Tempest Williams

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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - 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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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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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. - 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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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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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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