Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEOne 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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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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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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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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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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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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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