All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.- Alexis de Tocqueville

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ― Helena Rubinstein

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. ― Elizabeth Zimmerman

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. -Jimi Hendrix

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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. -Alexis de Tocqueville

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