"Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive."

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Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher, historian, and writer.

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