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Where equality is lasting, great revolutions will be harder and rarer than people suppose
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- Alexis de Tocqueville French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859)
As I examine more closely the natural wants and tendencies of democratic nations, I grow persuaded that if ever social equality is generally and permanently established in the world, great intellectual and political revolutions will become more difficult and less frequent than is supposed.
Where this was said
↗Democracy in America, Volume 2 (1840; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org
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