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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

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Country Freedom Talk
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
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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Education Growth Myself Prosperity Strength Women
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Greatness Moral
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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Kind Language Man Strong Unity
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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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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Country Institution Law Moral World
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Establishment Faith Liberty Moral
Slavery…dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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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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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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Easy Lying Simplicity Truth World
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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Impossible Liberty Mindset Oneself Religion
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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