Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
¶ (Attributed)
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Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer and politician
The people grow tired of a confusion whose end is not in sight.
¶ (Attributed)
In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.
¶ Democracy in America
If I were asked … to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
¶ Democracy in America, 2.3.12 (1840)
(tr. H. Reeve and F. Bowen, 1862)
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
¶ The Old Regime and the French Revolution, 3.3 (1856)
(tr. Stuart Gilbert, 1955)
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