"If I try to imagine the modern despotism, I see a huge crowd of similar and equal beings hovering over themselves to get small and petty pleasures of which feeds on their souls ...
Above the crowd, I rise immense power to protect, which deals only with the subjects to ensure the welfare and watch over their fate.
is absolute, detailed, methodical, prudent, and even mild.
resemble paternal power if it had to end like that , to prepare men for manhood.
But, in contrast, does not try to keep them in perpetual childhood.
She enjoys the happiness of citizens, but wants to be the only agent, the sole arbitrator.
ensure their safety, their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages the business, industry, regulates the succession, divide the inheritance may not deprive them the strength to live and think? "
Democracy in America - A. Tocqueville
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