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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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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?
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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
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
As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
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Future Light Men Mindset Past
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Friendship Hate Politics
Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: “Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
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Equality Heart Jealous Myself Place
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Escape Government Oneself Politics
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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Justice Kind Law Man Myself People Right Simplicity
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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Doubt Man Myself People Vote
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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Authority Beginning Freedom Illusion Men Moral Power Rule Try
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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Ability Greatness Herself Lying Nation
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
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Dignity Human Liberty Love Passion
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
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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End Media News Opinion Politics
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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Charity Creation Establishment Live
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