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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThere are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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America is great because she is good.
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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 man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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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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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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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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