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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Country Motivational Politics
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
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
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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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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Citizenship Democracy Health Performance Quality Wisdom
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
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
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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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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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Black Equality Greatness Presence Race Revolution
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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Government Help Ideas Lose Need Place
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion