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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLENothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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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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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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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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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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 man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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 have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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