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

Alexis de Tocqueville

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Democracy Myself Philosophy Politics Slave Togetherness
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World
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
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
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Evil Freedom Goodness Love Myself Nature
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
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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Escape Government Oneself Politics
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Courage Inspirational Life One Liner
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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Equality Himself Leadership Men Thinking
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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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 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
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
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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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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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
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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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
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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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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We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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