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 TOCQUEVILLEAs 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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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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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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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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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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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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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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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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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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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America is great because she is good.
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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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