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Monday, June 12, 2006

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.
-- Alexis De Tocqueville: Introduction - Democracy in America
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