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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
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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Escape Government Oneself Politics
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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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
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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Human Intellectual Logic Oneself Ordinary Peace Principles Weakness
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
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
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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Democracy Myself Philosophy Politics Slave Togetherness
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Greatness Moral
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Future Light Men Mindset Past
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