In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLEAny 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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America is great because she is good.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
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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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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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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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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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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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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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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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