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.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAmerica is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
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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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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