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#1

“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.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

tags: democracy

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#2

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: herd-mentality, slavery

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#3

“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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#5

“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: political-parties

131 likes

#6

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution

tags: insightful

99 likes

#7

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

1657 likes

#8

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14726 likes

#9

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8483 likes

#10

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

1916 likes

#11

“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
― Friedrich August von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty

tags: coercion, equality, exclusivity, liberty, marginalized-people, oppression, privilege

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