Tocqueville Wrote

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    There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    Above all, he possessed a hearty good-will to all men, and never wrote a cross or even careless word.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)