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Tocqueville on Freedom in America

Published on November 6, 2016 By sirrahc

“I sought there [in America] an image of democracy itself, its tendencies, its character, its prejudices, its passions; I wanted to know democracy, if only to know at least what we must hope or fear from it.”  — Alexis de Tocqueville I was thinking recently that I should read the classic Democracy in America (1835/1840) […]