Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....


Democracy in America: Volume I (ed. 1835)


It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from ...

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from ...

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from ...

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from ...