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"The American republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money" Alexis de Tocqueville
by johngalt 15y ago
"The American republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money" Alexis de Tocqueville
- streptomycin 15y agoThat's a nice quote, but it's misattributed. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattributed http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattrib...
- Jd 15y agoThere is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all. Here's a more extensive (and accurate) one.