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Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
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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Evil Freedom Goodness Love Myself Nature
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
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
There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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Country Greatness Man Religious Soul World
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
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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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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Existence Himself Oneself
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
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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Dangerous Fear Man Myself Revolution Theory
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality

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