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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Black Equality Greatness Presence Race Revolution
Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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Equality Himself Leadership Men Thinking
If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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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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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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