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Quotes from Notes for a Speech on Socialism — Alexis de Tocqueville

1805–1859 France

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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

Notes for a Speech on Socialism (1848)

Socialism is a new form of slavery. ... As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways.

Notes for a Speech on Socialism (1848)

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