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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes: The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
         

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.


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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.



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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.



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There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.



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



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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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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.





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