Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThere is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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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.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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