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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  3. 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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  8. A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  9. I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  23. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  24. 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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