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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Country Motivational Politics
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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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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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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Believe Exercise Illegal Men Oppression Power Rule
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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Faith Goodness Keys Myself Sacrifice Support
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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World