History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.Alexis de Tocqueville
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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