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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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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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America is great because she is good.
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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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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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