The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in …

Alexis de Tocqueville
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The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, has been simplified and reduced, as it were, to a single principle. ✨ Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). Democracy in America
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