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"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves." -
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Top 5 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."
Top 5 quotes from Miscellaneous
"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."
"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."
"As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
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