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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEIn politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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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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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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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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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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