The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEChristianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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 man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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