508 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and few copies.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort and wealth.
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It is ... far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.
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Fixed ideas of God and human nature are indispensable to the daily practice of men’s lives; but the practice of their lives prevents them from acquiring such ideas.
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