I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEIn politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
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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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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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