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• [R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

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  Church, Share, States

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

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  Revolution, Midst, Democratic

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• In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

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  Sex, Taken, Equality

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

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  Country, Thinking, America

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• In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.

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  Country, Father, Son

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.463, Bantam Classics

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• Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach, and teach them how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.

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  School, Government, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1851). “The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and Examined”, p.62

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• The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

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  Journalism, Language, Speak

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.112

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• All around you everything is on the move.

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  Moving

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835-1840). Edited by J. P. Mayer, translated by George Lawrence, vol. 1, part 2, chapter 6, p. 242, 1969.

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• To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.

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  Passion, Men, Dwelling

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• Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

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  Men, Multicultural Society, Religion

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.

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  Wisdom, Country, Men

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.534, Bantam Classics

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