Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.
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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.Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.
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What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
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Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
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