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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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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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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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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Human Intellectual Logic Oneself Ordinary Peace Principles Weakness
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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America is great because she is good.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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Absence Development Government Strength
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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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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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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