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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
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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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
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
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
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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Country Feeling Government Men Support
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 most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Beginning Dangerous Government Moments
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.
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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength