The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. . . . No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes, what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to.
Alexis De Tocqueville
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