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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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
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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Government Help Ideas Lose Need Place
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
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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Charity Creation Establishment Live
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
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Future Light Men Mindset Past
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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Black Equality Greatness Presence Race Revolution
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
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
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Greatness Moral
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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Doubt Man Myself People Vote
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
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Country Feeling Government Men Support