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Alexis de Tocqueville Quote - When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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Democracy Man Politics Principle Rule
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Detail Government Liberty relief
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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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
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America is great because she is good.
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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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Country Feeling Government Men Support
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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Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.
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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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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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As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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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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