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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Escape Government Oneself Politics
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
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
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 surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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Break Democracy Old Politics See Time
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
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Genius Greatness Herself Myself Patriot Power Right Secret Understand
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
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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Accomplishment Democracy Destroy Nation Peace Seek War
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity
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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End Media News Opinion Politics
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
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
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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