“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”

—  Alexis De Tocqueville, book Democracy in America

Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

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French political thinker and historian 1805–1859

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