Tocqueville Wrote

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“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

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