Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“When there were periods of crisis, you stood beside him. When there were periods of happiness, you laughed with him. And when there were periods of sorrow, you comforted him.”
Tribute to John F. Kennedy http://www.rfkmemorial.org/lifevision/tributetojfkatthednc/, 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City (27 August 1964)
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