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 TOCQUEVILLEAs 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.
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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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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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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America is great because she is good.
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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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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