In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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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
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
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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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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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