The Not-So-Good Shepherd
Alexis de Toqueville warns of democratic despotism in America - in 1840.
This new sovereign:
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This new sovereign:
... does not break wills but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which government is the shepherd.
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