Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Worship
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They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.
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