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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
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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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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America is great because she is good.
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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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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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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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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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