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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  2. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  6. everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  10. The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  20. In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  22. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  23. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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