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Democratic peoples love equality more than freedom, and will demand it even in servitude

Drawn from what Alexis de Tocqueville said

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taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

What Alexis de Tocqueville actually said

  1. Alexis de Tocqueville French political philosopher and historian (1805 to 1859)
    I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

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