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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."
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. 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."
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."
"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve."
"It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth."
"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."
"The most common and most natural defect of the human mind is seeking after equality in the wrong place."
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"The American revolution broke out, and the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people came out of the town and took possession of the state."
"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."
"Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, as the support of just rights, as protector of the oppressed, and founder of order: nations are lulled to sleep by the temporary prosperity it ensures; and when they do awake, they are in chains."
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."
"The only power which can establish freedom in a society is virtue."
"Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations."
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"It is indeed difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of managing their own affairs should be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them."
"The tyranny of the majority in the United States is now generally combined with the tyranny of public opinion."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
"Nothing is more repellent to the human mind than the idea of submission to the will of another; nothing is more flattering than the notion of power."
"The doctrine of interest rightly understood produces no great acts of self-sacrifice, but it does inspire a daily round of petty self-denials.”"
"The unrestrained rule of the majority is tyranny; the only restraint on political authority is morality."
"It is in the examination of details that the superiority of democracy lies."
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"The whole book is to demonstrate, by specific example, that democratic nations are in general more likely to desire peace than aristocratic nations, but that they do not withstand war with as much tenacity when it has been begun."
"When the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity."
"A society is not merely a body of individuals, but a body of individuals with a body."
"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."