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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Country Feeling Government Men Support
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Future Light Men Mindset Past
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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Ignorance Luxury Men Mindset Power Pride Slave
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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Character Money Nation See Value
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World
If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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Education Growth Myself Prosperity Strength Women
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Dangerous Employment People Violence
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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Existence Himself Oneself
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
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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Country Motivational Politics