In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until he has failed at everything else.
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By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.Alexis Tocqueville
turn against themselves and consider their hopes as having been childish--their enthusiasm and, above all, their devotion absurd.
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The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.
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Two things in America are astonishing the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.
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