Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEEverybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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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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America is great because she is good.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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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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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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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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