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"I have shown how the dread of disturbance and the love of well being insensibly lead democratic nations to increase the functions of central government as the only power which appears to be intrinsically sufficiently strong enlightened and secure to protect them from anarchy I would now add that all the particular circumstances which tend to make the state of a democratic community agitated and precarious enhance this general propensity and lead private persons more and more to sacrifice their rights to their tranquillity A people is therefore never so disposed to increase the functions of central government as at the close of a long and bloody revolution which after having wrested property from the hands of its former possessors has shaken all belief and filled the nation with fierce hatreds conflicting interests and contending factions The love of public tranquillity becomes at such times an indiscrim inating passion and the members of the community are apt to conceive a most inordinate devotion to order. Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville By Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (Translator), Colonial Press, Revised Edition, 1899, volume II, page 315,
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Looking for the full context and citation, I found:
"I have shown how the dread of disturbance and the love of well being insensibly lead democratic nations to increase the functions of central government as the only power which appears to be intrinsically sufficiently strong enlightened and secure to protect them from anarchy I would now add that all the particular circumstances which tend to make the state of a democratic community agitated and precarious enhance this general propensity and lead private persons more and more to sacrifice their rights to their tranquillity A people is therefore never so disposed to increase the functions of central government as at the close of a long and bloody revolution which after having wrested property from the hands of its former possessors has shaken all belief and filled the nation with fierce hatreds conflicting interests and contending factions The love of public tranquillity becomes at such times an indiscrim inating passion and the members of the community are apt to conceive a most inordinate devotion to order.
Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville By Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (Translator), Colonial Press, Revised Edition, 1899, volume II, page 315,
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