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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Beginning Dangerous Government Moments
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.
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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
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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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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Best Law Moral Worst
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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Freedom Loss Material Reward
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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Ignorance Luxury Men Mindset Power Pride Slave
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
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
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
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
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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Divine Liberty