“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic..., than in the monarchy...; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others.”
― Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
― Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
“The philosophers, ancient and modern, agreed that the fulfillment of humanity is in the use of reason. Man is the particular being that can know the universal, the temporal being that is aware of eternity, the part that can survey the whole, the effect that seeks the cause.”
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“How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity?”
― Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
― Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
“The function of the virtues is precisely to replace the animal with the person as the center of our activity, to ensure that our actions stem from our own accountability and self-conception and that they cement the relations of dependency and commitment on which our lives depend.”
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