America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLELiberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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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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Socialism is a new form of slavery.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
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One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
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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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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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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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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support.
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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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I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
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