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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835)
In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835)
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835)
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856)
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.
Democracy in America, Volume I (1835)
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts — the cradle of its infancy, and the Divine source of its claims.
Despots themselves don't deny that freedom is a wonderful thing, they only want to limit it to themselves; they argue that everyone else is unworthy of it.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)
That religion which holds that all men are equal in the sight of the great Father will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the sight of the law.