The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for indepen… - Alexis de Tocqueville

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The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

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About Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.
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