Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Alexis de Tocqueville

The idea of rights is nothing but the concept of virtue applied to the world of politics.
By means of the idea of rights men have defined the nature of license and of tyranny . . .
no man can be great without virtue, nor any nation great without respect for rights.

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  1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, [1835]1991: 219

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