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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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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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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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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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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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