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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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Citizenship Equality Escape Himself Pride Try
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
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
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Democracy Destroy Nation Peace Seek War
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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Citizenship Democracy Health Performance Quality Wisdom
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
One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
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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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
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
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
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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Corruption Discovery Endurance Government Money
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Born Freedom Liberty Men Slave