If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEOne 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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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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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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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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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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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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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