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

Alexis de Tocqueville

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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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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Absence Development Government Strength
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
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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Ability Greatness Herself Lying Nation
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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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
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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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
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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