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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
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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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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Country Institution Law Moral World
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Dangerous Employment People Violence
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
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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Country Motivational Politics
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
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Democracy Man Politics Principle Rule
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
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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Oppression Order Present Suffering Support
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave
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