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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Democracy Difference Equality Liberty Patriotic Seek Service
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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Authority Beginning Freedom Illusion Men Moral Power Rule Try
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Fake History People Reality
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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Country Feeling Government Men Support
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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Necessary Reality Simplicity
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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Country Freedom Independence Mindset Myself Reality
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
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Government Improvement Moments Oppression Seek
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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Country Motivational Politics
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Beginning Home Right Woman World
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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