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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Commentary: Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law

I have been looking back over Alexis de Tocqueville’s unfinished masterpiece, The Old Regime and the French Revolution. It is full of piquant observations, for example this from the end of the preface: “a man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.” How much contempt do you suppose emanates from the apparatchiks who inhabit the D.C. swamp and control our lives? How slavish is their devotion to the unfettered prerogatives of the idol they serve, the state?
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  1. AnonymousDecember 23, 2021 at 12:47 PM

    “a man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”

    I didnt know Tocqueville wrote poetry

    He may have written that two centuries ago but wow, so appripo to now.

    daddy-o

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  2. UH1H CEDecember 23, 2021 at 1:00 PM

    For as long as Hitlery Clinton wants to be President, Joe Biden's health will always be in question

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