The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEI 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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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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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.”
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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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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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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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America is great because she is good.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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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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The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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