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Socialism is a new form of slavery.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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  2. As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it bo…
  3. So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
  4. If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrag…
  5. God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course …
  6. By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks are turned to the earth more than to Heaven; they are the partisans of libe…
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Topics in this quote

  • politics
  • freedom
  • rights
  • slavery
  • socialism
  • control
  • economics

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