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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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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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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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