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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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America is great because she is good.
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Goodness Greatness Herself Patriot
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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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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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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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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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 I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.
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