Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEIn politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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America is great because she is good.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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