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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Government Improvement Moments Oppression Seek
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
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.
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Dangerous Fear Man Myself Revolution Theory
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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Freedom Loss Material Reward
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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Divine Liberty
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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Character Money Nation See Value
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
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
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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Oppression Order Present Suffering Support
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
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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Democracy Difference Equality Liberty Patriotic Seek Service
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Greatness Moral
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
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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Country Feeling Government Men Support
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