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Drawn from what Alexis de Tocqueville said
religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors than in the monarchy which they attack; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others.
Where this was said
↗Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org
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