I 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.
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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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Christianity 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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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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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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