In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEOne of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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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 should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship 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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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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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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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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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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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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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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