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Alexis predicted perfectly Obama’s America:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate…It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry…covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate to rise about the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherds. ” 

December 8, 2013 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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