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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.”

Alexis de Tocqueville · Government

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Alexis de Tocqueville

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

War

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Equality

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Best

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

History