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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Quotes: On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
         

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.


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On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
         



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