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“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
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“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
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“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”
― Sphere: The Form of a Motion
― Sphere: The Form of a Motion
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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