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Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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Government Help Ideas Lose Need Place
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 last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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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Doubt Man Myself People Vote
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
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
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
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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Believe Exercise Illegal Men Oppression Power Rule
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
Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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Authority Beginning Freedom Illusion Men Moral Power Rule Try
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
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
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
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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Character Money Nation See Value

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