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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThere 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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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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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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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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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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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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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.
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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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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America is great because she is good.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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