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— Alexis de Tocqueville"Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot."
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
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