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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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Government Help Ideas Lose Need Place
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
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Enemy Friendship Men Truth
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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Ignorance Luxury Men Mindset Power Pride Slave
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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Country Greatness Man Religious Soul World
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity
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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Education Growth Myself Prosperity Strength Women
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Company Feeling Government Himself Men
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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Goodness Service Silence
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave