There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEI 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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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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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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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