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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. "
Government
Tax
Escape
" 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. "
Nation
Accomplish
War
" Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. "
Equality
Freedom
Than
" An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing. "
Say
American
Chance
" 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? "
Character
Question
Value
" Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. "
Find
Comfort
Life
" 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. "
One Word
Socialism
Democracy
" Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. "
Will
You
Division
" He was as great as a man can be without morality. "
Man
Without
Great
" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "
Gallery
History
Many
" I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. "
Step
Revolution
Men
" I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. "
Freedom
Mind
America
" 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. "
Opinion
Liberty
Him
" In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. "
Revolution
Difficult
End
" In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. "
Country
Love
More
" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "
Escape
Words
Tax
" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "
Friendships
Politics
Almost
" 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. "
Necessity
Own
United States
" 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. "
Men
Differences
Disappear
" Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. "
Without
Faith
Liberty
" Life is to be entered upon with courage. "
Entered
Life
Courage
" No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. "
War
Freedom
Country
" No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure. "
Society
Differences
Education
" Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. "
Society
Living
Men
" The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. "
American
Republic
Money
" 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 other. "
Religion
Liberty
Impossible
" The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. "
Happen
Great
Goal
" The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. "
Satisfaction
Want
Him
" The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. "
Great
Words
New
" The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. "
America
Greatness
Nation
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