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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - 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.

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
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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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 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
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Country Feeling Government Men Support
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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Doubt Man Myself People Vote
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Darkness Future Inspirational Motivational Past Spirit Walk
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
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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Believe Exercise Illegal Men Oppression Power Rule

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