"Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom:……" — Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery."

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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