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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Art, Being Free, Use

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Art, Men, Law
Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Art, Men, Together
Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.134

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