America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAmerica is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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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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Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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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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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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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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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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