"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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― Alexis de Tocqueville
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- "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
- "I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
- "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
More In Politics
- "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."― Barry Goldwater
- "The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."― Rosa Luxemburg
- "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."― Richard Armour