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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - 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.

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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 so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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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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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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