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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Source: Letter, 1862, to Ivan Turgenev (published in My Past and Thoughts, vol. 4, Ends & Beginnings, 1921; tr. by Constance Garnett 1924 --27).-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.
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