Misattributed quotes — Alexis de Tocqueville
1805–1859 France
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America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
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America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.
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It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.
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In the end, the state of the Union comes down to the character of the people. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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