"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.“
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"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."
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"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."
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"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
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"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
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"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
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"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
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