Become America by Eric Liu

Author:Eric Liu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

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A PRACTICING CITIZEN

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December 16, 2017

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

From Democracy in America

Published 1835

Despotism, by its very nature suspicious, sees the isolation of men as the best guarantee of its own permanence. So it usually does all it can to isolate them. Of all the vices of the human heart egoism is that which suits it best. A despot will lightly forgive his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love one another. He does not ask them to help him guide the state; it is enough if they do not claim to manage it themselves. He calls those who try to unite their efforts to create a general prosperity “turbulent and restless spirits,” and twisting the natural meaning of words, he calls those “good citizens” who care for none but themselves.

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