The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de TocquevilleOne of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de TocquevilleWhen a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term, and public opinion, struck always from the same side, ends by yielding under their blows.
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