Quotes with inheritances

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• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

  The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inheritances
• foundations
• seventeenth
• classical
• antiquity
• reshaped

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