Alexis de Tocqueville about opinion (“Democracy in America”, 1835) - In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.
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“ In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them. ”
 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). copy citation

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Alexis de Tocqueville about opinion (“Democracy in America”, 1835) - In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville about opinion (“Democracy in America”, 1835) - In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.