Tocqueville

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“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)