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)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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...