“In the United States,” he wrote, “the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.” And elsewhere: “I know of no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.” And still elsewhere: “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move
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Tocqueville
