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“In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.”Alexis de TocquevilleInvent
“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.”Alexis de Tocqueville
“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”David Ben-GurionCourage
“The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.”Alexis de TocquevilleAssembly
“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.”Alexis de TocquevilleAbsolutely
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”Alexis de TocquevilleHistory
“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.”Walter LordCourage
“Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.”James Harvey RobinsonCourage