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In the United States, the maj...

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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Consider any individual at an...

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Liberty cannot be established...

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

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Americans are so enamored of ...

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

It is the dissimilarities and...

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.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In America the majority raise...

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.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

In no other country in the wo...

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.

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What is most important for de...

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

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No protracted war can fail to...

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

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

All those who seek to destroy...

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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I know of no country in which...

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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The French want no-one to be ...

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.

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Socialism is a new form of sl...

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

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I do not know if the people o...

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Alexis De Tocqueville 390 quotes

Muhammad brought down from he...

Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.

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There is, in fact, a manly an...

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

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The American Republic will en...

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

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Any measure that establishes ...

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

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Every nation that has ended i...

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 public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

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There is, indeed, a most dang...

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

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