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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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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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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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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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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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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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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 is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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