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• Americans are so enamoured of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Men will never establish any equality with which they can be contented.
  Whatever efforts a people may make, they will never succeed in reducing all the conditions of society to a perfect level....
• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black is lost in the gray of it.
  It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages....
• The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Men of quality are not afraid of women for equality.
• Though I have said above that all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality.
  Age or virtue may give man a just precedency. Excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level ....
• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)...
• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...