Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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 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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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