Alexis de Tocqueville

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

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business

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.

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business

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

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courage

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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equality

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

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equality

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.

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equality

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

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faith

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

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freedom

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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