The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Tocqueville
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.
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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation to start a war and to end it.
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By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.
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turn against themselves and consider their hopes as having been childish--their enthusiasm and, above all, their devotion absurd.
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