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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Oppression Order Present Suffering Support
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
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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Escape Government Oneself Politics
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
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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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Country Feeling Government Men Support
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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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
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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Ability Greatness Herself Lying Nation
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Greatness Moral
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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Dangerous Fear Man Myself Revolution Theory
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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Existence Himself Oneself
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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Country Greatness Man Religious Soul World
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Company Feeling Government Himself Men
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
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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Character Money Nation See Value
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling