According to Alexis De Tocqueville in 1840:
“It cannot be absolutely or generally affirmed that the greatest danger of the present age is license or tyranny, or despotism. Both are equally to be feared; and the one may as easily proceed as the other from the selfsame cause, namely, that “general apathy,” which is the consequence of what I have termed “individualism”; it is because this apathy exists, that the executive government, having mustered a few troops, is able to commit acts of oppression one day, and the next day a party, which has mustered some thirty men in its ranks, can also commit acts of oppression. Neither one nor the other can found anything to last; and the causes which enable them to succeed easily, prevent them from succeeding long: they rise because nothing opposes them, and they sink because nothing supports them. The proper object therefore of our most strenuous resistance, is far less either or despotism than the apathy which may almost indifferently beget either the one or the other.” http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/ Alexis_de_tocqueville.jpg/ 220px-Alexis_de_tocqueville.jpg
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