Alexis de Tocqueville about truth (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.
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“ Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it. ”
 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840). copy citation

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Alexis de Tocqueville about truth (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.
Alexis de Tocqueville about truth (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.