Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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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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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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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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