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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Darkness Future Inspirational Motivational Past Spirit Walk
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
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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Charity Creation Establishment Live
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
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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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
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
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Love Myself Nature
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
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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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
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
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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Education Growth Myself Prosperity Strength Women
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
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
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
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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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Human Intellectual Logic Oneself Ordinary Peace Principles Weakness
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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Democracy Difference Equality Liberty Patriotic Seek Service
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
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
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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Escape Government Oneself Politics
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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Ability Greatness Herself Lying Nation
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
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
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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Country Motivational Politics
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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Oppression Order Present Suffering Support