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In America man never obeys man, but justice or the law.

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American aristocracy is found at the bar and on the bench.

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The whole country seems to have melded into one middle class.

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I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

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Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

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Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

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The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

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What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

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No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

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

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Various forms of religious madness are quite common in the United States.

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

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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

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The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

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

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

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He who desires in liberty anything other than itself is born to be a servant.

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In the Western settlements we may behold democracy arrived at its utmost limits.

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When a nation abolishes aristocracy, centralization follows as a matter of course.

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

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Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

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This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

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The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

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Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

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That disease called work which has afflicted man since the beginning of his existence.

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I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

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Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

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We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.

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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

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