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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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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
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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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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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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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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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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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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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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America is great because she is good.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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