In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.Alexis de Tocqueville
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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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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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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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Life is to entered upon with courage.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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