| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61331 |
| QUOTATION: | Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859), French social philosopher. About Virtue in Republics, vol. 2, appendix 5, Democracy in America (1840). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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