Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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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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There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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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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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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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