Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. ✨ Alexis de Tocquev…

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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). Democracy in America, p.282, University of Chicago Press
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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). Democracy in America, p.282, University of Chicago Press

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