The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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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 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 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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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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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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