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Alexis de Tocqueville
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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What is 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.
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Alexis de Tocqueville | government
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Alexis de Tocqueville | freedom
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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