Monday's Quote of the Day

In the early 1830s, the French statesman Alexis Charles Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville traveled to the United States to inspect the prison system. While here, he undertook a near exhaustive study of the nature of american democracy and ended up publishing several volumes that continue to enlighten on the nature of our political and social system. Here is one of the conclusions he drew:

"If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed,
that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority
of the majority, which may at some future time urge
the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have
recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then result,
but it will have been brought about by despotism."