In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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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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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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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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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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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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