What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
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America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
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But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.
Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
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