“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
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“When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their 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 neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
― Democracy in America: Volume 2
― Democracy in America: Volume 2
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