"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.“

-Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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"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 Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."

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