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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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Citizenship Democracy Health Performance Quality Wisdom
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
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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Evil Freedom Goodness Love Myself Nature
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
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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Democracy Difference Equality Liberty Patriotic Seek Service
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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Independent Necessary Opinion Politics relief
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Darkness Future Inspirational Motivational Past Spirit Walk
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Dangerous Fear Man Myself Revolution Theory
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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Equality Himself Leadership Men Thinking
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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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
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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Authority Beginning Freedom Illusion Men Moral Power Rule Try