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Morality Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to…
- [Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
- The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
- I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
- There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a…
- Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
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