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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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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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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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 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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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Oppression Order Present Suffering Support
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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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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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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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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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 tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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