I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAmerica is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.
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I vow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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America is great because she is good.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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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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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
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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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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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I 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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