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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAmerica is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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There 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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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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