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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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
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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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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 American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
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Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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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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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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