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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
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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Human Intellectual Logic Oneself Ordinary Peace Principles Weakness
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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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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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Beginning Dangerous Government Moments
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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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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