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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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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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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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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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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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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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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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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I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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