Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on February 10, 2026
… is from page 423 of the 2010 Liberty Fund edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 work, Democracy in America (James T. Schleifer, translator):
As for me, I believe that in all governments, whatever they are, baseness will attach itself to strength and flattery to power.
