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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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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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America is great because she is good.
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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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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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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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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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