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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
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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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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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Absence Development Government Strength
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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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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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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Faith Goodness Keys Myself Sacrifice Support
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
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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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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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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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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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If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
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