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- The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
- Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
- Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has…
- Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
- It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
- The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,…
- The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found…
- The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
- To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
- The world belongs to those with the most energy.
- But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small…
- The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment…
- The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of…
- Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
- Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,…
- One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of…
- When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of…
- Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
- The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;…
- In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster