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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave
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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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Democracy Man Politics Principle Rule
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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Human Intellectual Logic Oneself Ordinary Peace Principles Weakness
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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Believe Exercise Illegal Men Oppression Power Rule
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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Existence Himself Oneself
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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Citizenship Equality Escape Himself Pride Try
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word