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“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules,
through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate.
It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people,
till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals,
of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville