“ No one will assert that a people cannot forcibly wrong another people ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). copy citation
Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
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Source | Democracy in America |
Topic | wrong |
Date | 1835 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Henry Reeve |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/815/815-h/815-h.htm |
Context
“nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. *c And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow-creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.
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[ No one will assert that a people cannot forcibly wrong another people; but parties may be looked upon as lesser nations within a greater one, and they are aliens to each other: if, therefore, it be admitted that a nation can act tyrannically towards another nation, it cannot be denied that a party may do the same towards another party.]”
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