It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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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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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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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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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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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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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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