I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on ev…

Alexis de Tocqueville
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ✨ Democracy in America. Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Volume II, Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.
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