"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies." ― Alexis de Tocqueville Topic(s): History More From Alexis de Tocqueville "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it." "In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it." "Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves." More In History "History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."― Karl Marx "September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible."― Doris Lessing "Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination."― Lily Tomlin