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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

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
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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Country Motivational Politics
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Beginning Dangerous Government Moments
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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Enemy Friendship Men Truth
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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Black Equality Greatness Presence Race Revolution
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
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Dangerous Fear Man Myself Revolution Theory
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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Break Democracy Old Politics See Time
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Democracy Man Politics Principle Rule
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Genius Greatness Herself Myself Patriot Power Right Secret Understand
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
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