Men corrupted exercise power, debased habit obedience; exercise a powe — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy America

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Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

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