"Égalité is an expression of envy. It means, in the real heart of every Republican, "No one shall be better off than I am;" and while this is preferred to good government, good government is impossible."
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Alexis de Tocqueville, conversation with Nassau William Senior (May 22, 1850), in Correspondence & Conversations, vol. 1 (1872), p. 94.
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