Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEThere is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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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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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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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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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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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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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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