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“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“is natural that they should hasten to invoke the assistance of religion, for they must know that liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith; but they have seen religion in the ranks of their adversaries, and they inquire no further; some of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Here then I retreated, and lay down, happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein [Original 1818 Text]

“The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America