Butcher's Choice Cuts » Alexis de Tocqueville http://jhbutcher.com The meandering mind of Jonathan at jhbutcher.com Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:10:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 No, the other Alexis http://jhbutcher.com/2008/09/26/no-the-other-alexis/ http://jhbutcher.com/2008/09/26/no-the-other-alexis/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:44:50 +0000 jhbutcher http://jhbutcher.com/blog/2008/09/26/no-the-other-alexis/ Continue reading →]]> “It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor unceasingly to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers themselves.”

– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840.

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