The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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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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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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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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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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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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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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America is great because she is good.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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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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Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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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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