I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAny measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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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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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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