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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEI cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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America is great because she is good.
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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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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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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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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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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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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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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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