Life is to be entered upon with courage.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThose which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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