A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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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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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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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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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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking 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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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