by Sheldon Richman Posted on The Freeman, June 2010 • Volume: 60 • Issue: 5 I took that title from volume 2, section 4, chapter 6 of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1840). Considering what has been happening legislatively (and not just in the last year-plus), it seems like a good time to revisit [...]
Tag Archives: Roman Empire
“What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear”
Posted in Democracy Also tagged Alex de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, democratic despotism 1 Comment
“Dangers To A Society May Be Mortal Without Being Immediate”
Thomas Sowell Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy “Dangers to a society may be mortal without being immediate. One such danger is the prevailing social vision of our time – and the dogmatism with which the ideas, assumptions, and attitudes behind that vision are held.” Those two poignant sentences were published over [...]
Posted in Dictatorship, Free Speach Also tagged Europe, Founders, Free Speech, John Adams, Nazis, Ottoman Empire, Spanish Empire, The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell 1 Comment
