5 Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville about people
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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