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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLELiberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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