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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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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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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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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.
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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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