When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education … the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint … . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold… . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2 (via trueloveisafire)
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