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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Rulers who destroy men’s freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. … They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
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America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
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
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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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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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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Escape Government Oneself Politics
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
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World