, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate.
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate.
It does not tyrannize but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till the nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
When the taste for physical gratifications among you has grown more rapidly than your education the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint. It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold they will neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835
When the taste for physical gratifications among you has grown more rapidly than your education the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint. It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold they will neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters. Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835