Tocqueville Wrote

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“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)