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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. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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" Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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 politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

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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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" 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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" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "

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" There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. "

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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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" 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. "

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" No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. "

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" Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. "

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" When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. "

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

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" In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. "

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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 other. "

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" The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. "

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" There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. "

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" We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. "

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