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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Company Feeling Government Himself Men
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.
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Break Democracy Old Politics See Time
I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Love Myself Nature
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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Freedom Loss Material Reward
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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Government Improvement Moments Oppression Seek
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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End Media News Opinion Politics
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.
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Faith Goodness Keys Myself Sacrifice Support
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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Believe Exercise Illegal Men Oppression Power Rule
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.
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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Enemy Friendship Men Truth
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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Citizenship Democracy Health Performance Quality Wisdom