It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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America is great because she is good.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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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 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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Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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