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There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens
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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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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too
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In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom
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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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