When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLELife is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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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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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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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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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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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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America is great because she is good.
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