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In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die.
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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.
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The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.
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The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.
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The South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible beings, is becoming more irritated and alarmed.
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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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