#those

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #obligation #only

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #destroy #know #liberties #means

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#cries #cry #cut #dragging #drill

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#african #another #blind #both #deaf

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#concentration #depth #honor #incredible #investigation

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #different #essays #i #interested

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#authorizing #consent #derive #exercised #federal

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#abyss #battle #courage #die #entering

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land. ↗

— Walter Knott

#cowards #every #find #home #land