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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst, in point of fact, the geographical position of the country which he is unable to change, a social condition which arose without his co-operation, manners and opinions which he cannot trace to their source, and an origin with which he is unacquainted, exercise so irresistible an infl..
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He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
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Variant: What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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