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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThe tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite 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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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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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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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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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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 tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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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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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
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