There are two things which a democratic people will always find very d…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. ✨ Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). Democracy in America: Volumes I & II, p.1253, The Floating Press
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. ✨ Alexis De Tocqueville (2009). Democracy in America: Volumes I & II, p.1253, The Floating Press

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