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"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." -
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Top 5 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."
"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Top 5 quotes from Faith, Liberty, Morality
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble."
"Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
"I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."
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