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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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