Life is to be entered upon with courage.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEGenerally 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.
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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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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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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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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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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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