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Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has been seen from Augustus down to our own day. —Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and ...

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Anyone who works in an institution for a long time comes to view it as a phenomenon as natural (and immovable) as Mount Everest. It is there; it has always been there; it always will be there.