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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.

  Source: 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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