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Alexis de Tocqueville

Posted August 11th, 2005 by Taran

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840)

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