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LAW & HISTORY > scientist, historian, politician > Alexis de Tocqueville
I cannot help...
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all . . .
Source: Democracy in America, vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 21, 1840.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, (Jul 29 1805-1879), French scientist, historian, politician; He is best-known for Democracy in America, 4 vol., 1835-40, a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the U.S. in early 19th C.