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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - 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?

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?

Alexis de Tocqueville

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There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
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Country Greatness Man Religious Soul World
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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Art Freedom Hard Wonderful
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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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
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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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Best Law Moral Worst
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
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In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
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Equality Himself Leadership Men Thinking
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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Give Up Politics Vocabulary Word
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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Form One Liner Slave
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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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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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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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
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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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