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 TOCQUEVILLEIn politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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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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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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