There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLELiberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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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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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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Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States – that is to say, they will owe their origin not to the equality but to the inequality of conditions.
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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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A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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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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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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