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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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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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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

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Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original ...more

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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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I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

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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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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism...more

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It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the t...more

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The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of ...more

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A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; fina...more

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Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rig...more

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One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men fo...more

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Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy eithe...more

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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.