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Religion, which never interven...

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Despotism can do without faith...

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Trade is the natural enemy of ...

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In democratic ages men rarely ...

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

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When, after having examined in...

When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have been given it, one discovers without difficulty that a more immense judicial power has never been constituted in any people.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In democratic centuries, on th...

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

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To get the inestimable good th...

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

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I avow that I do not hold that...

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

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It is an axiom of political sc...

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

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When a large number of organs ...

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.

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The more I view the independen...

The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.

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In America one of the first th...

In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

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To commit violent and unjust a...

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

There are at the present time ...

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the dest

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The prejudice of the race appe...

The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State...

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I am obliged to confess that I...

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

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There is no country in the wor...

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

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Despotism may be able to do wi...

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

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above this race of men stands ...

above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...

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I cannot believe that a republ...

I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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