Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEI have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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America is great because she is good.
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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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