I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEHowever 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 have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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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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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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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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