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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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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Top 5 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."
"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."
"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Top 5 quotes from Democracy, War & Peace
"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"
"It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city, with the discords of families."
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