Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

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We are all born mad. Some remain so. ― Samuel Beckett

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. -Diogenes

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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