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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

Topics: Above Anxiety Beneath Constantly English Englishman Eyes French Him His Inferiors No-One Raises Satisfaction Superior Want

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He was as great as a man can be without morality.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Great He Man Morality Without

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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Always Begin Democratic Difficult End Find People Things Two Very War Which Will

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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Alike Between Combine Differences Different Education Find Fortune Interest Laws Make May Men Much Never Pleasure Purposes Render Same Society Some Sometimes State Tastes Them Though Will

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Historian

Born: July 29th, 1805

Died: April 16th, 1859

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