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The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by...more

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Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn pub...more

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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the...more

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It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those wh...more

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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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These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment … cross over into Ohio...more

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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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Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other...more

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

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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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It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not fre...more

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What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me ...more

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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent...more