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  • If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.260

  • Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.190
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Alexis de Tocqueville

  • Born: July 29, 1805
  • Died: April 16, 1859
  • Occupation: Historian
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