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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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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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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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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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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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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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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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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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