Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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