"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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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.“
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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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."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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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."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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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."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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"I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign."
-Jack Abramoff
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"What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare."
-Glenn Frankel
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"I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that."
-Katie Ledecky
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"The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media."
-Garrett Graff
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
-Henrietta Szold
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"Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge."
-Carl D. Anderson
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