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Wednesday, January 22, 2003 But it happens that, at the same period and amongst the same nations in which men conceive a natural contempt for the rights of private persons, the rights of society at large are naturally extended and consolidated: in other words, men become less attached to private rights just when it is most necessary to retain and defend what little remains of them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835]
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