Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLENot 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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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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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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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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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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