When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThis so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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America is great because she is good.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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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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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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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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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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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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