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Quotes from The Old Regime and the Revolution — Alexis de Tocqueville

1805–1859 France

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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)

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