"Die Regierung, welche durch eine Revolution vernichtet wird, ist fast stets besser als ihre unmittelbare Vorgängerin. Die Erfahrung lehrt, dass der gefährlichste Augenblick für eine schlechte Regierung gewöhnlich derjenige ist, in dem sie sich zu reformieren beginnt."
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Das Ancien Régime und die Revolution, zitiert nach J.P.Mayer: "Alexis de Tocqueville, Analytiker des Massenzeitalters", München 1972, S. 85
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