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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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Ability Greatness Herself Lying Nation
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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Independent Necessary Opinion Politics relief
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
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
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
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
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
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
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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
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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Citizenship Equality Escape Himself Pride Try
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
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
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
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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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Authority Beginning Freedom Illusion Men Moral Power Rule Try