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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
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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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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Government Improvement Moments Oppression Seek
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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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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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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Citizenship Equality Escape Himself Pride Try
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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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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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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Beginning Home Right Woman World
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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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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