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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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
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
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
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
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
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
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
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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Country Institution Law Moral World
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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End Media News Opinion Politics
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
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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Independent Necessary Opinion Politics relief
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
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
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