Alexis De TocquevilleI am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.
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You can be certain that there is no evil plan that Adolf Hitler ever had. He was too intelligent, too well spoken, and too confident to ever plot a plot against humanity. But, he did have a plan. I’m sure he had the means, the means to build an army, the means to annihilate democracy in Europe, and the means to take over all of Europe. He knew exactly what he wanted, but he also made it clear that nobody could tell him how to get it.
Source: Democracy In America
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