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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.
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
America is great because she is good.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
All around you everything is on the move.
The world belongs to those with the most energy.
We need a new political science for a new world.
Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.
Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.
Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
