I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Tocqueville
The Commonplace