The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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America is great because she is good.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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