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• Quote #312 There exists in the human heart a depraved taste for equality
  which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom....
• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)...
• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Americans are so enamoured of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
  -- Alexis de Tocqueville...
• Though I have said above that all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality.
  Age or virtue may give man a just precedency. Excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level ....
• Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
  SPRECHT...
• What good is it to me, after all, if there is an authority always busy to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures and going ahead to brush all dangers away from my path without giving me even the trouble to think about i
  if that authority, which protects me from the smallest thorns on my journey, is also the absolute master of my liberty and of my life?...
• Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
  -- Robert D Sprecht (Rand Corp.)...