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 TOCQUEVILLEThe tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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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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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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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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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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