Egads. The quoted stuff was written more than 100 years ago.
Toward the end of “Democracy in America” he warned against the
government becoming “an immense tutelary power…absolute, detailed,
regular…cover[ing] [society's] surface with a network of small,
complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original
minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way.”
Tocqueville also foresaw exactly how this regulatory state would
suffocate the spirit of free enterprise: “It rarely forces one to act,
but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy,
it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders,
compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces [the]
nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious
animals of which the government is the shepherd.” --N Ferguson/WSJ quoted at ColdFury
The only thing he missed was the Omnipresent Eye of NSA/IRS.
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Considering some of his other comments the solution may be: "First, we kill all the attorneys."
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