"Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape……" — Bertrand de Jouvenel
"Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation."
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Bertrand de Jouvenel
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