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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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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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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

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Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

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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