In countries where associations are free, secret societies … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America.

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Alternative Names: Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville • Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

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In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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