.... But it may be that an excessive taste for material goods leads people to put in the hands of the first master who present them. In fact, in the life of any democratic people, there is a very dangerous step. When the taste for material wealth grows faster than the habit of freedom and civilization, there comes a time when men let themselves be dragged and almost lose their heads at the sight of goods which are for conquer. Concerned only to make a fortune, they fail to grasp the close ties
me joining the welfare of everyone to prosperity for all. In such cases, you will not even need to rip them the rights they enjoy: they will be willing to deprive themselves ... If a person able and ambitious manages to seize power in such a critical moment, will find the way open to any abuse . Just who cares for a while 'to cure the material interests and no one will call him to answer the rest. Guaranteeing that the first order! A nation that his government seeks the only law enforcement is already a slave at heart, the slave of his well-being and a can occur at any moment the man destined to serve him. When the great mass of citizens wish to be responsible only for their private affairs of the smaller parties can seize power. It is not uncommon then to see the vast multitudes of the world scene represented by a few men who speak in the name of an absent or inattentive crowd, which act in the midst of the universal property has a whim of everything: changing laws and bullied at their convenience on costumes, so that you can not help but be amazed to see in what unworthy hands and weak possacadere a great people. Tocqueville quoted by Umberto Eco in Thoughts, L'espresso, No 20 years LIV, May 22, 2008, p. 222
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