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When 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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave
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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Black Equality Greatness Presence Race Revolution
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
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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Accomplishment Democracy Destroy Nation Peace Seek War
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Democracy Man Politics Principle Rule
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
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Enemy Friendship Men Truth
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
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
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
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
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
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
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Democracy Myself Philosophy Politics Slave Togetherness