"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.“

-Alexis de Tocqueville

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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

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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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"Life is to be entered upon with courage."

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