There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEWhen a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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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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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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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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