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It behooves us, however, to remember also that de Tocqueville warns about the "oppression by which democratic nations are menaced... an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives".

In democracies, where they are all upon equality; and in aristocracies, where the laws ought to use their utmost endeavors to procure as great an equality as the nature of the government will permit, slavery is contrary to the spirit of the constitution: it only contributes to give a power and luxury to the citizens which they ought not to have.

I endeavored to answer him.

I endeavored to answer as best I could.

Kate endeavored to put some of the value back on.

Mr. Abdul-Malik has endeavored to fix that.

It endeavored to hobble you with greater and greater frequency.

So I endeavored to find out.

She endeavored to understand.

Schwartz endeavored to return the favor.

Thus we have endeavored to answer the following questions: 1.