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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Difference Myself Opinion Tolerance
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Future Light Men Mindset Past
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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Believe Freedom Liberty Live Love Myself Time
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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
Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Courage Energy Enough Evil Feeling
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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Character Money Nation See Value
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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Existence Himself Oneself
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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Divine Liberty
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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Doubt Man Myself People Vote
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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Ignorance Luxury Men Mindset Power Pride Slave
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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End Media News Opinion Politics
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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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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Company Feeling Government Himself Men
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity