Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 189 of the 1955 edition of Stuart Gilbert’s translation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s wisdom-packed 1856 masterpiece, The Old Régime and the French Revolution:

Paradoxically enough, what made things worse was that the King and his Ministers were inspired by purely altruistic ideals; for by showing that methods of violence can be employed with good intentions by people of good will, they set a dangerous precedent.