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    A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
     
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    Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
     
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    Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
     
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    The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
     
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    When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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    Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
    Lieutenant Howell Maurice Forgy, USN (ChC)
     
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    "A friend is some one who tells you the truth even if it makes you cry. An enemy is some one who makes you happy when he is telling lies"
    A translated old Egyptian quote ....
     
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    Economics advances one funeral at a time.

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    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

    -- various attributions
     
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    Do you even care that there's no proof de Tocquevill ever said such a thing, in spite of its endless repetition on right-wing websites? Or that any of the multitudinous other people it's been attributed to ever said it, either?

    No? I'm not surprised. I didn't really think it would bother you; modern so-called 'conservatives' have a penchant for putting words into the mouths of dead people, to give their newly-minted beliefs some sort of bogus historical validation.
     
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    That's an amusing saying I've run into often, and it has more than a grain of truth in it. I thank you for not trying to turn it into immutable gospel by stuffing it into your favorite dead person's mouth....
     
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    The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

    Margaret Thatcher
     
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    Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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    Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
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