The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEChristianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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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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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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