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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. — A. de Tocqueville

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Always Costly

by Paul Epps on 27 Apr 2013

In democratic societies, there exists an urge to do something even when the goal is not precise, a sort of permanent fever that turns to innovations (which) are always costly. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1831) Read more →

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