Alexis de Tocqueville Quote

Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is altogether unworthy of it.


L'Ancien régime (1856)


Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is...

Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is...

Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is...

Despots themselves do not deny that freedom is excellent; only they desire it for themselves alone, and they maintain that everyone else is...