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Quote from Tocqueville's Recollections (1851)

Friday 10 February 2012

The latest Quote about Liberty and Power has been posted. It features Alexis de Tocqueville on the 1848 Revolution in Paris. He notes:

"I found in the capital a hundred thousand armed workmen formed into regiments, out of work, dying of hunger, but with their minds crammed with vain theories and visionary hopes". </quote/355>