A Saturday Word from Tocqueville

Not that many people–me included–spend much time reading one of Tocqueville’s other books, The Old Regime and the Revolution, in which he offers this sage observation that is quite apropos the Age of Obama:

“A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”

(Hat tip: Scott Walter, Philanthropy Daily.)

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